From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
To: typ22@foxmail.com, 57496@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#57496] [PATCH 0/2] Add support for chain-loader
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 21:52:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2f6a4ba8-6fa6-7452-6cbc-17733b7e71d8@telenet.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tencent_D50D46B1C5A3817ECDC3439B50086343FC06@qq.com>
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> Why do I want to use chainloader instead of linux and initrd?
>
> 1. guix system and archlinux are independent of each other in my computer.
> They are just on the same computer, but they have their own disk partitions.
> I also don't want them to interfere with each other.
> (I have no money to buy more computers. I just have one computer.)
Sounds a practical system to me.
On 31-08-2022 07:23, typ22@foxmail.com wrote:
> Is the chain-loader free?
>
> The chain-loader is a function of grub, and grub's protocol is GPL3.
> I think it is free. Although chain-loader can boot nonfree system like windows,
> it's like nonfree software can run on linux-libre, and linux-libre is free.
>
> If Guix think it's nonfree, I will only keep these changes in my computer.
I do believe it counts as free, especially given that it can be used to
boot into other free systems (e.g., Trisquel) and that you example usage
is for booting into a largely-free system.
Greetings,
Maxime.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-31 5:23 [bug#57496] [PATCH 0/2] Add support for chain-loader typ22
2022-08-31 19:52 ` Maxime Devos [this message]
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2022-09-01 3:51 ` tiantian
2022-09-01 6:03 ` [bug#57496] [PATCH v2 1/2] gnu: bootloader: Extend `<menu-entry>' " typ22
2022-09-04 14:04 ` [bug#57496] [PATCH v3 1/3] " typ22
2022-09-04 17:25 ` [bug#57496] [PATCH v4 " typ22
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