From: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
To: Vladilen Kozin <vladilen.kozin@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Any way to boot Guix with root partition elsewhere?
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 23:06:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z038851.fsf@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACw=CXP2rKeVavgZ-UZrRoZRpaoL5zPvjJPorjAiAYY5eKUesQ@mail.gmail.com> (Vladilen Kozin's message of "Fri, 30 Apr 2021 20:19:39 +0100")
Vladilen Kozin <vladilen.kozin@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello guix.
>
> Is there a way out of this predicament? I can see two options.
> (1) can some Linux distro/bootloader do the FreeBSD trick: start on
> USB but then chain-boot Guix off that SSD? IIUC grub's chain-boot is
> of no help here, cause it simply won't even see that drive;
> (2) install and run Guix off USB but somehow ensure that "IO heavy"
> bits are mounted from that SSD. There's gotta be some (file-systems
> ...) combined with the way I `guix system init config.scm /mnt` (or
> rather what else I mount under /mnt where) that would achieve this?
Hmm. I'm way out of my depth here...
I think number 1 is your "best" bet. I've no idea how to do that.
Number 2 is probably your "easiest" option. /boot/ should be put on the
usb, and I suppose that the / should be on the SSD...You would install
this way. That's probably how I'd do it. Or rather that is how I would
try to do it. :)
This is probably a silly idea...would linuxboot.org help? You use linux
to boot?
Another silly idea...could you embed linux in your flashrom? I think
that osboot.org is planning on embedding linux in the flashrom...That
would be pretty awesome. My flashrom is only 8MB though...
Best of luck!
Joshua
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-01 3:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-30 19:19 Any way to boot Guix with root partition elsewhere? Vladilen Kozin
2021-05-01 3:06 ` Joshua Branson [this message]
2021-05-01 13:01 ` Vladilen Kozin
2021-05-02 22:08 ` Joshua Branson
2021-05-03 12:55 ` Jonathan McHugh
2021-05-02 21:16 ` support split /boot partition Vagrant Cascadian
2021-05-02 21:59 ` Vincent Legoll
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