From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix on a Dell XPS 13 DE - 9350
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:31:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160616233108.GA6440@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twgsail1.fsf@gnu.org>
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:12:58AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There were some hurdles I had to get over so sharing my experiences
> here.
>
> The XPS ships with Ubuntu 14.04, but uses UEFI boot and GPT disk.
> In the bios I selected "legacy" boot and used gdisk (from gptfdisk,
> see patch below) to change it to MBR.
>
> The SSD uses the NVMe protocol, which means I needed to include that
> module in the initial ramdisk (patch below). Grub 2.0 cannot handle
> NVMe devices and needs a patch from 2014. I decided to use
> grub-2.02~beta3 (patch below...using a custom url because guix does
> not like the ~).
>
> I expect we want to include probably patches #1 and #2, we may want
> to cherry pick the patch...not sure.
>
> Greetings,
> Jan
>
> +(define-public gptfdisk
[...]
> + ;; (patches
> + ;; (search-patches "gdisk.patch"))
Leftover?
> + ("util-linux" ,util-linux)))
What part of util-linux is used? Since it's a grab-bag of miscellaneous
utilities, it's nice to say in a comment what part is used. Or, if it's
just one component, to use that component as the name. For examples, see
btrfs-progs or ntfs-3g.
> + (replace 'install
Can you leave a comment saying "No 'install' target", if that's
accurate? Or explain why we replace the install phase.
> * gnu/system/linux-initrd.scm (base-initrd): Add nvme to linux-modules.
Sounds like a good addition.
> * gnu/packages/grub.scm (grub): Change version no 2.02.beta3, use
> custom url symlinked to 2.02~beta3.
We should fix the problem that requires this workaround :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-16 23:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-16 22:12 Guix on a Dell XPS 13 DE - 9350 Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-06-16 23:31 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-06-17 11:58 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-06-29 14:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-02 10:52 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-07-13 22:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-15 15:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
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