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From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GuixSD on the SoftIron OverDrive 1000 (AArch64)
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 18:40:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sh10a7wv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0s4ah5f.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Sat, 20 Oct 2018 15:20:44 +0200")

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Following advice and encouragements from Vagrant and Danny :-), I
> successfully installed GuixSD on the SoftIron OverDrive 1000 machine
> that was donated last January¹ (its PSU died a while back and I just
> received a replacement from SoftIron, and I thought it was also a good
> time to replace the distro.)

Ooh, nice!

> On the first boot, the GuixSD activation snippets fail while trying to
> install /etc, /etc/pam.d, and /etc/skel, and /etc/ssl because these
> directories already exist (from openSuSE) whereas GuixSD assumes that
> they don’t.  The solution is just to remove/rename them from the Guile
> initrd REPL.  Once this is done, booting proceeds flawlessly and
> happiness ensues.

We could do with a more powerful REPL ;-)

> ¹ https://gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/aarch64-build-machines-donated/

So...is there an opportunity for someone to start looking at a Reduced
Binary Seed boostrap for AArch64?

janneke.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-20 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-20 13:20 GuixSD on the SoftIron OverDrive 1000 (AArch64) Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-20 16:40 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen [this message]
2018-10-22 12:29   ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-22 19:17     ` GuixSD on AArch64 Vagrant Cascadian
2018-10-24 13:01       ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-12 10:36       ` Andreas Enge
2018-12-12 14:26         ` Vagrant Cascadian
2018-10-20 18:29 ` GuixSD on the SoftIron OverDrive 1000 (AArch64) Efraim Flashner
2018-10-22 12:31   ` Ludovic Courtès

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