From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com>
Cc: 37164@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37164: Generated installation image does not include grub.
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 11:42:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o909lj7y.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7eb5e5964ad6564c7cc6cc7711b18daf1faac64a.camel@gmail.com> (Jesse Gibbons's message of "Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:40:13 -0600")
Hello Jesse,
Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com> skribis:
> 1. generate the install image
> guix system disk-image --file-system-type=iso9600 --verbosity=3 --
> root=installation-os-x86_64.iso --system=x86_64-linux -e '(@ (gnu
> system install) installation-os)'
>
> 2. examine the resulting iso
> readlink installation-os-x86_64.iso | xargs file
>
> output: /gnu/store/3xp541s4zrxass6h6rcwfz7bc33wv84p-disk-image: DOS/MBR
> boot sector; partition 1 : ID=0x83, active, start-CHS (0x0,32,33), end-
> CHS (0xe3,198,58), startsector 2048, 3657239 sectors; partition 2 :
> ID=0xef, start-CHS (0xe3,198,59), end-CHS (0xe8,224,16), startsector
> 3659287, 81921 sectors
>
> 3. Compare this output with what file says about the official
> installation iso:
> wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.0.1.x86_64-linu
> x.iso.xz
> unxz guix-system-install-1.0.1.x86_64-linux.iso.xz
> readlink guix-system-install-1.0.1.x86_64-linux.iso
>
> output:guix-system-install-1.0.1.x86_64-linux.iso: DOS/MBR boot sector;
> GRand Unified Bootloader, stage1 version 0x79, boot drive 0xbb, stage2
> address 0x8e70, 1st sector stage2 0xb8db31c3, stage2 segment 0x201;
> partition 1 : ID=0xee, start-CHS (0x0,0,2), end-CHS (0x3f6,38,4),
> startsector 1, 2694403 sectors, extended partition table (last)
>
> It appears file discovered the GRand Unified Bootloader in the official
> iso but not in the generated iso.
I can’t seem to reproduce it now:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix describe
Generacio 101 Aug 26 2019 09:31:24 (nuna)
guix a707484
repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
branch: master
commit: a707484d64e7e46f8cb8401c660fbb6eb77ab9c6
$ guix system disk-image --file-system-type=iso9660 gnu/system/install.scm
/gnu/store/cpyyjnwbpm2hrpcjf1j8y4yjis9za33s-image.iso
$ file /gnu/store/cpyyjnwbpm2hrpcjf1j8y4yjis9za33s-image.iso
/gnu/store/cpyyjnwbpm2hrpcjf1j8y4yjis9za33s-image.iso: DOS/MBR boot sector; GRand Unified Bootloader, stage1 version 0x79, boot drive 0xbb, stage2 address 0x8e70, 1st sector stage2 0xb8db31c3, stage2 segment 0x201; partition 2 : ID=0xef, start-CHS (0x3ff,63,32), end-CHS (0x3ff,63,32), startsector 2711068, 5760 sectors
$ guix system disk-image --file-system-type=iso9660 -e '(@ (gnu system install) installation-os)'
/gnu/store/cpyyjnwbpm2hrpcjf1j8y4yjis9za33s-image.iso
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Not sure what’s going on…
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-28 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-23 17:40 bug#37164: Generated installation image does not include grub Jesse Gibbons
2019-08-26 20:44 ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-08-27 2:48 ` Jesse Gibbons
2019-08-27 5:09 ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-08-28 1:17 ` Jesse Gibbons
2019-08-28 8:30 ` Danny Milosavljevic
[not found] ` <8ae71cee64c17946a72db95ad26805b261f120f5.camel@gmail.com>
2019-08-28 22:17 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-08-28 22:36 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-08-28 22:54 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-08-28 23:46 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-08-28 9:42 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-08-28 22:25 ` Jesse Gibbons
2019-08-29 0:34 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-08-29 5:18 ` Jesse Gibbons
2019-08-29 6:05 ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-09-01 20:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
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