From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Tom=C3=A1=C5=A1_?= =?UTF-8?Q?=C4=8Cech?= Subject: bug#25248: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! GRUB1 and GRUB2 Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 20:53:55 +0100 Message-ID: <87ful350z0.wl-tcech@suse.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41314) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cNPjB-00012O-NT for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2016 14:54:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cNPj8-0007AS-Ce for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2016 14:54:05 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:46333) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cNPj8-0007AH-8o for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2016 14:54:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cNPj7-00040t-VO for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2016 14:54:01 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: 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: Gennadii Kondratiev Cc: 25248@debbugs.gnu.org On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 18:20:11 +0100, Gennadii Kondratiev wrote: >=20 > [1 ] > [2 ] > #Hello! > # > #Thanks for your kind words and encouragement! > # > #As far as GRUB is concerned, please email 25248@debbugs.gnu.org detailed > #information about what you expected and what you get (wrong behavior, > #error messages, etc.), and how one can reproduce it. This information > #is crucial in allowing us to debug and fix the problems you experience. > # > #Thanks for your support! > # > #Ludo=A2. >=20 > I wrote to Ludovic Cortes that you should include Legacy Grub into GNU pa= ckages, because it can be installed in any place (e.g., on the root partiti= on), but > Grub 2 has this feature blocked by default (at least, all people in the I= nternet say so). Or it would be better to unblock this feature in Grub2. Ev= en with the > powerful Grub people can make less harm to their conputers than, for exam= ple, with fdisk, which you like and include everywhere.=20 > > I installed GuixSD with big difficulties, and at the end I could not boot= it. Of course, I booted via Aptosid Grub, but it is not very nice to use a= bootloader from > another OS. >=20 > You do very amazing and advanced things and do not worry about some simpl= e things. A good bootloader is important. >=20 > Just, please, recover the ability of Grub 2 to write on the disk. At now = moment it says that it needs to calculate block sizes, something like that.= When people > write --force option, it says that everything is ok, but in reality it do= es not write on the disk. 1] If you want to put Grub2 into partition, you can use filesystem, which r= eserves enough space at the beginning like BtrFs. 2] You can also use calculated block size which is less safe but still work= s in most of cases In those cases you can use either `multiboot' to chainload GuixSD's bootloa= der or just load GuixSD's configuration with `source'. 3] You can use GuixSD's configured Grub2 as your default bootloader in MBR = of the disk which is the easiest way to deal with that. Relying on unmaintained Grub is probably not the right way for anything. HTH and happy New Year to you too! S_W