From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
Cc: 40839@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40839: Shepherd activation .GO files are not cross-compiled ... and the Hurd
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:20:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8rbcysb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7x5w1hi.fsf@gmail.com> (Mathieu Othacehe's message of "Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:35:05 +0200")
Mathieu Othacehe writes:
Hello Mathieu!
> I had a look to (gnu system hurd), this is really nice! I think we could
> try an explosive mixture of our two branches :)
Sure, why not? ;-) I played a bit yesterday with wip-disk-image. Not
that (gnu system hurd) already lives on core-updates; possibly we can
start playing there? I tried rebasing wip-disk-image on core-updates
and that was (almost?) painless.
> More seriously, we could do something like:
>
> (define hurd-disk-image
> (image
> (format 'disk-image)
> (partitions
> (list
> (partition
> (size 'guess)
> (label "Guix_image")
> (file-system "ext2")
> (flags '(boot))
> (initializer (gexp initialize-hurd-root-partition)))))))
Sweet!
> then we could have some mapping in guix/scripts/system.scm to
> associate:
>
> * x86_64-linux -> efi-disk-image
> * i586-pc-gnu -> hurd-disk-image
>
> and one could get a hurd disk-image by typing:
>
> guix system disk-image --target=i586-pc-gnu my-hurd-os.scm
Oh, that sounds real great.
> One problem that can arise is the installation of grub. Currently
> wip-disk-image does not support legacy Grub (MBR based)
> installation.
>
> This is because running grub-install needs root permissions, to mess with
> /dev/something in order to write the MBR I guess.
Hmm...so we need to do some work, is that bad?
> We could also create a Hurd ISO if grub-mkrescue (that is used to make
> the ISO bootable), supports the Hurd.
>
> Adding Ludo that might have some insight here.
Hopefully -- this is also pretty out of my comfort zone, otoh I am
very motivated to get this going. :-)
I have been wondering about the branch name in combination with its
functionality: can/will/could "wip-disk-image" also be used for
guix system init/reconfigure (we don't have qemu on the Hurd)?
Greetings,
janneke
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-28 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-25 9:49 bug#40839: Shepherd activation .GO files are not cross-compiled ... and the Hurd Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-04-25 12:13 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-04-25 13:28 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-04-25 15:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-25 17:38 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-05-02 13:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-25 12:32 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-04-25 17:59 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-04-27 12:35 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-04-28 17:20 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen [this message]
2020-04-29 8:48 ` Mathieu Othacehe
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