From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: bug#37021: GuixSD 1.01-i686 install DVD boot failure on Macbook1, 1: failed to resolve partition Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:32:49 +0200 Message-ID: <20190823003249.797c90a9@scratchpost.org> References: <1565734617.2324.20.camel@sbcglobal.net> <1565821926.5199.14.camel@gmail.com> <20190822163119.172cf4ef@scratchpost.org> <20190822203243.32fa7c77@scratchpost.org> <877e74zya2.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; boundary="Sig_/wJSfcco=Ze48xVzV.xQRh0_"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48213) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i0veg-0000SW-H3 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Aug 2019 18:34:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i0ved-00011Z-45 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Aug 2019 18:34:06 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57822) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i0vec-00010t-BI for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Aug 2019 18:34:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i0veb-000562-V4 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Aug 2019 18:34:01 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <877e74zya2.fsf@netris.org> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Mark H Weaver Cc: Calvin Heim , 37021@debbugs.gnu.org --Sig_/wJSfcco=Ze48xVzV.xQRh0_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Mark, Hi Calvin, On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:26:50 -0400 Mark H Weaver wrote: > I appreciate your effort to make life easier for Calvin, but in general > it seems like a bad security practice to post large unsigned disk images > and asking users to try them. In general I agree. So I would suggest Calvin to try it and then later del= ete the target drive. I think it is unreasonable to expect users to build disk images of distribu= tions that don't work for them (it's nice if they do--but I don't like the shirki= ng of responsibility. It's a large time investment that has a big initial learni= ng curve and no guaranteed payoff). > A digital signature from you would > improve matters somewhat, but ideally there should also be a description > of how to reproduce this image. In this case, the current Guix release image doesn't have one important fix that directly affects Macbooks. Therefore, I built a current image of guix master (without any extra changes--so it does contain the fix): $ ./pre-inst-env guix system disk-image -t iso9660 -s i686-linux gnu/system= /install.scm As I said in the past, let's please release Guix again soon so the fix is g= oing to users. Also, I'm curious whether it improves the situation for Calvin (reading thr= ough the thread, it might not--the failure is too late). > It's also not good to be promoting Google Drive here, which requires > non-free Javascript. I'm aware that IceCat includes an extension to > allow Google Drive to at least partially work with LibreJS, but I was > unable to easily get it to work on my IceCat configuration where I use > NoScript instead. In the end there's a limit to how much time I'm going to spend on this. Google drive works and is easy enough to use--if there's an alternative that at least takes less effort than Calvin building the image on his own, I'll use that. --Sig_/wJSfcco=Ze48xVzV.xQRh0_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEds7GsXJ0tGXALbPZ5xo1VCwwuqUFAl1fGBEACgkQ5xo1VCww uqXQ5QgAnt4hX6gUzOb0B+xPmaB0jOpBxzYdgjOrK9r++Lzo3rvNbk2ben5zaUL7 dV+I5c/ma3x4XfBbtX8viPQDLSoWjj5Z3qiEW/0uYxdwyyGyqnsRq9lUo37Fnqtc qqB1wmuU62gq3k8Ti2R9NOLPHHU4JxfsZw1PtlW0VVHd06WUvbSkzqCs2KPsly5K g+4//oyRY/TPXqUt5e7R1n8rgseZblAtZ7hzfEwRE1BklYV9FKZismoTN1B4f68M NGL11MHkTStDd+ej9s6rJCwGAwt5wllHup7HuLz0GsUL1UgKi1MKBrcZn3u3Aldy WJQ2dE/b5sZhJcUxMJeyVRueMZP5rA== =eu7N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/wJSfcco=Ze48xVzV.xQRh0_--