From: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
To: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Chrooting into GuixSD
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2018 01:55:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muv62h9d.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3c3b50f5-6d98-ca7a-9e50-021934b922e1@riseup.net> (swedebugia's message of "Fri, 15 Jun 2018 12:21:26 +0200")
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swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> writes:
> On 2018-06-14 17:01, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>> Would any of you like to document this in the manual?
>>> I would because I posted articles like the current one sometime ago.
>> Excellent!
>>
>>> Maybe a separate ‘users-stories.texi’ should be as was discussed
>>> somewhere on a mailing list (as I remember)?
>> I think that this particular section on tools that Guix provides to
>> recover a broken system (and the peculiarities of chrooting into a
>> GuixSD system) can go right into the manual. This does not preclude the
>> option to have a more detailed step by step guide in a
>> “user-stories.texi”.
> +1
>
> Does GuixSD by the way support dropping to a root shell by passing
> "single" as a kernel parameter? I once used a distro that had a
> feature like that.
>
> Ubuntu supports dropping to a root shell (and memtesting RAM?) among
> more options if "recovery" is choosen in the grub menu. I like that
> feature. If something like that had been possible on this old
> GuixSD-installation I would not have had to resort to chrooting.
If you pass the "--repl" option on the Linux kernel command line (e.g.,
from the GRUB menu), I believe you can do this. See "(guix) Initial RAM
Disk" in the manual for details.
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Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-05 8:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-13 4:04 Chrooting into GuixSD swedebugia
2018-06-13 7:13 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-06-13 8:13 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-06-13 10:09 ` Thorsten Wilms
2018-06-14 12:18 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-06-14 13:04 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-06-14 14:29 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-06-14 15:01 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-06-15 10:21 ` swedebugia
2018-07-05 8:55 ` Chris Marusich [this message]
2018-06-15 15:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-15 18:20 ` Thorsten Wilms
2018-06-16 15:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
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