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From: David Craven <david@craven.ch>
Subject: Re: How does install-grub work?
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 22:29:40 +0200
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To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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I have some questions too... So for booting a vm we don't actually
need a boot loader, since it passes the kernel image through the
-kernel flag. I don't think it's relevant that grub is installed in
the MBR. So getting guix system vm --system=armhf-linux to boot
doesn't actually require uboot... It just needs to make sure that grub
isn't pulled in as a dependency (since there isn't a substitute for
grub on arm/mips).

@Danny: Did you write install-uboot.c? I don't have a clue what it's
doing =P I don't really know anything about filesystems or
bootloaders...