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Qemu: EFI stub: ERROR: Failed to decompress kernel
I created a raw disk image with qemu-img and created an EFI and an EXT4 filesystem on it with losetup, fdisk, mkfs.vfat and mkfs.ext4.
As a quick hack, because I couldn't find efi shell on the laptop ...
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Using Das U-Boot to boot Linux on x86_64 UEFI platform
I have some troubles booting Linux Kernel from Das U-Boot on x86_64 UEFI Platform.
I tried to use default efi application defconfig target (x86-app), with addition scsi, sata and some other config ...
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Signal handling in debugger in linux
I am working on a debugger and found an issue.
I start at the beginning of the dynamic linker (this is a low-level debugger). At this address, I set it so that for a particular signal, the process ...
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Linux not reading /boot directory off of USB
I'm attempting to run 32 bit linux off of a usb for an old XP machine. There are important files on the computer's base drive, so formatting or partitioning isn't on the cards. So far I've tried AntiX ...
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Why am I unable to start/run Lutris after installing it?
Recently, I tried installing Lutris and Wine on my machine (which uses Debian 12 as its operating system with a 64-bit architecture and Plasma for my desktop).
First, I installed Wine via this guide ...
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Unicode glyphs not rendering on Manjaro i3
I cannot get Unicode glyphs to render on Monjaro i3.
I have installed a bunch of noto fonts, including noto-fonts, noto-fonts-cjk, noto-fonts-emoji, noto-fonts-extra, ttf-noto-nerd.
When I run fc-...
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Linux kernel is not booting up from uboot on x86_64 qemu
I have built uboot and linux for qemu-x86_64 and I am booting u-boot.rom and then try to boot linux from there, but I think cpu resets when I execute zboot command and uboot starts again. Here is my ...
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Why does exception in interrupt always lead to Kernel Panic?
If a CPU exception in kernel, such as bad memory access or invalid opcode, happens in the context of servicing a user process (like syscall or page-in), or in a kthread process, then, until ...
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Changing the GNUPG home directory on NixOS
I'm setting up NixOS 24.05 and I'm using the equivalent version of Home Manager. I'm trying to move the directory for GNUPG to $HOME/.local/share/gnupg also known as $XDG_DATA_HOME/gnupg. I know that ...
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How is my x86_64 machine is running an arm64 binary? [duplicate]
My machine's architecture is x86_64 and I've cross-compiled arm64 assembly (from here) into an executable. However the binary is still runnable on my machine... how?
Here are the outputs to the ...
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Unmet dependencies and broken packages after installing libstdc++6
When trying to use screenshare with audio on vesktop, I got an error from the app that read "your c++ library is too old to run venmic", which prompted me to try and update it.
I followed ...
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How can you tell internal USB controllers (South Bridge) apart from external (Motherboard) controllers?
I recently built a workstation and am running into issues getting Linux to boot. After a lot of trial and error (because mostly the behavior I see is indefinite hangs) I think I've narrowed the issue ...
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Permanent brightness issue after just reading `/dev/mem`
For no reason, I've tried to read /dev/mem on a Linux x86_64 laptop using
cat /dev/mem > /dev/null
Under the root user, and my kernel was built without any restrictions on /dev/mem. I knew that /...
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running X86 Virtualbox VM on an Apple silicon Mac, UTM not working
My college provides a virtual machine (SliTaz VM, possibly an old Linux distro) to run veriluoc which is a software to design and simulate logic gates. The problem is that VM was designed to run on ...
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Differences between qemu-i386 and Linux IA32 emulation
On x86-64 Linux, there are two options for running 32-bit applications: one can be built into the kernel itself via the option CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION (normally on for most kernels), and the other is ...
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