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<damo22>opencontainers is a linux thing, it expects a linux kernel to be running
<damo22>its monolithic by design, i dont think hurd would work with that
<yang>nexussfan: do you have T400/T510 and also any other 64bit compatible with hurd?
<yang>nexussfan: I am trying to build a list of hurd-compatible thinkpads
<yang>currently I only have X201
<damo22>yang: please wait for the latest changes to be released in debian because there are some critical IRQ changes coming
<damo22>you may find a lot more thinkpads will work soon
<yang>ok
<yang>But I guess the working ones, are mostly at most Core2Duo based?
<yang>no newer ones?
<damo22>with our changes, i was able to boot on w530
<damo22>eg
<Noisytoot>What prevents newer ones from working?
<yang>Released in June, 2012, the W530 has a very similar exterior appearance to the prior W models.
<damo22>its ivybridge
<Noisytoot>I have an X200 (penryn), T440p (haswell), and T480s (kaby lake refresh)
<damo22>they should all work soon i think
<damo22>the IRQ detection was broken before
<Noisytoot>T480s I think requires xHCI support for USB to work, since they dropped the EHCI controller in skylake
<damo22>rumpusb has xhci
<yang>I have orderd a docking station for X200, it only costs 5 €
<yang>X200/X201 should be compatible
<yang>IMHO the older Thinkpads seem to have tough keyboards, you gotta press harder, not my favourite choice
<damo22>yeah but they are more sturdy
<nexussfan>yang: I don't have a T400/T510, I only have a T420 running AMD64 Hurd
<damo22>yang: the docking station should have a serial port
<damo22>that will be handy for debugging
<yang>I hope so
<yang>Are there instructions about how to make it work in qemu?
<yang>how to install hurd there
<youpi>it's all in readmes
<yang>ok found it
<yang>I still need to setup Qemu
<yang>I guess I will use a SBC board ARM64 to run qemu on it
<yang>(until I try it on a Thinkpad hardware)
<Noisytoot>damo22: X200 UltraBase does not have a serial port
<gnu_srs>Serial output works now: Problem was that /boot/grub/grub.cfg was writable.
<gnu_srs>Now OK: ls -l /boot/grub/grub.cfg; -r-------- 1 root root 9717 Oct 29 10:05 /boot/grub/grub.cfg
<damo22>gnu_srs: put GRUB_TERMINAL=console into /etc/default/grub and update-grub
<gnu_srs>Another bug: cat /etc/fstab: /dev/cd0 /media/cdrom0 iso9660 noauto 0 0.
<gnu_srs>Booting reports several times: [ 8.5800050] cd0: dos partition I/O error; Unable to get block size.
<gnu_srs>I had to comment out that entry.
<gnu_srs>damo22: tks, will do that next time I need serial output.
<damo22>terminal_input console
<damo22>terminal_output console
<damo22>you need that in grub.cfg as well
<damo22>the other one just makes the gfx part not display
<damo22>and force text mode
<gnu_srs>Another bug: cat /etc/fstab: /dev/cd0 /media/cdrom0 iso9660 noauto 0 0.
<gnu_srs>Booting reports several times: [ 8.5800050] cd0: dos partition I/O error; Unable to get block size.
<gnu_srs>Serial output works now: Problem was that /boot/grub/grub.cfg was writable.
<youpi>do you actually have an iso image given as CD?
<jab>sneek later tell nexussfan The T510 I can't get the Hurd to install because the keyboard is broke. The enter key does not work. So I cannot make it through the hurd installer. My T400 is librebooted. So graphics does not work. I could probably install the "text installer", which is the mach console, but I don't think I've tried that yet.
<sneek>Welcome back jab, you have 1 message!
<sneek>jab, nexussfan says: Nice article about hurd, X isn't too slow on my T420. What troubles do you have with hurd on a T400/T510? I seemed to install it fine
<sneek>Will do.
<gnu_srs>youpi: The netinst installer created that line for fstab.
<youpi>as it should, yes
<gnu_srs>debian-hurd-2025-amd64-NETINST-1.iso
<gnu_srs> https://meetings-archive.debian.net/images/ports/latest/hurd-amd64/20250807/iso-cd/
<jab>sneek: later tell nexussfan solid_black has an idea for making a hurd based container image called "sandman" I think. It probably has some code or at least a design, but you'd have to ask him.
<sneek>Will do.
<p4r4D0xum>jab: it's not a laptop, it's a desktop, not sure which exact model, but with i7 2600 and sandy bridge
<p4r4D0xum>oh wait
<p4r4D0xum>that's Acer Predator G3610