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From: <dian_cecht@zoho.com>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unable to get (menu-entries (...)) to work properly
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 01:25:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170409012552.38377600@khaalida> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170409011603.5d085c74@khaalida>

On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 01:17:10 -0700
<dian_cecht@zoho.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 09 Apr 2017 09:59:07 +0200 (CEST)
> Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be> wrote:
> 
> > From: <dian_cecht@zoho.com>
> > Subject: Unable to get (menu-entries (...)) to work properly
> > Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 00:36:42 -0700
> >   
> > > (bootloader (grub-configuration (device "/dev/sda")
> > >                                 (menu-entries
> > >                                  (menu-entry
> > >                                   (label "Desktop")
> > >                                   (linux "/boot/kernel")
> > >                                   (linux-arguments "")
> > >                                   (initrd "/boot/initramfs")))))
> > > 
> > > This constantly throws errors that I can't sort out. Attached (if
> > > I do it properly with this new email client) is a screenshot of
> > > the error.    
> > 
> > I think `menu-entries' should be a list.  Try
> > 
> > (menu-entries (list (menu-entry [...])))
> > 
> > Thomas  
> 
> I tried that and I'm still getting an error. Attached is the related
> screenshot.

Nevermind. Apparently system reconfigure craps itself when
(linux-arguments ...) is passed an empty string.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-09  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-09  7:36 Unable to get (menu-entries (...)) to work properly dian_cecht
2017-04-09  7:59 ` Thomas Danckaert
2017-04-09  8:05   ` Mathieu Othacehe
2017-04-09  8:17   ` dian_cecht
2017-04-09  8:25     ` dian_cecht [this message]
2017-04-09  9:21     ` Thomas Danckaert
2017-04-10 12:47       ` Ludovic Courtès

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