From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
Cc: 33517@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33517: Problem booting when using btrfs subvolume for /gnu/store
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 14:21:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhtt49sk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mupva8j5.fsf@cbaines.net> (Christopher Baines's message of "Mon, 26 Nov 2018 20:27:58 +0000")
Hello,
Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:
> I'm loosing track of this issue a bit, as I've been dealing with it for
> a while. I have a machine that I've setup where /gnu/store is a btrfs
> subvolume. I do this so that I can make flexible use of the space on
> that btrfs filesystem.
>
> Unfortunately, the grub configuration generated for this doesn't seem to
> account for this, and so it requires some tweaking to get it to boot.
>
> A long while back, I discovered I could make the following change, then
> the generated grub configuration would be fine.
>
>
> ---
> gnu/bootloader/grub.scm | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/bootloader/grub.scm b/gnu/bootloader/grub.scm
> index 06856dd58c..c3ddc3e128 100644
> --- a/gnu/bootloader/grub.scm
> +++ b/gnu/bootloader/grub.scm
> @@ -320,8 +320,8 @@ entries corresponding to old generations of the system."
> ;; Use the right file names for KERNEL and INITRD in case
> ;; DEVICE-MOUNT-POINT is not "/", meaning that the store is on a
> ;; separate partition.
> - (let ((kernel (strip-mount-point device-mount-point kernel))
> - (initrd (strip-mount-point device-mount-point initrd)))
> + (let ((kernel kernel)
> + (initrd initrd))
> #~(format port "menuentry ~s {
> ~a
> linux ~a ~a
> --
> 2.19.2
>
>
>
> Unfortunately, it's not a proper solution, as it obviously breaks when
> you actually want to strip the mount point off so that grub can find the
> right files.
Is there a way ‘strip-mount-point’ or some higher-level code could
determine whether we actually need to strip the mount point?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-28 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-26 20:27 bug#33517: Problem booting when using btrfs subvolume for /gnu/store Christopher Baines
2018-11-28 13:21 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-12-01 17:48 ` Christopher Baines
2019-09-26 8:04 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-01-26 23:59 ` Svante v. Erichsen
2019-02-03 14:41 ` david.larsson
2019-09-06 1:16 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-05-20 13:31 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-05-20 19:46 ` Christopher Baines
2020-05-21 1:34 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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