From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix/GNU/Linux multi distro + GuixSD multi-site scenario
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:03:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egatl1ai.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twjq8jhn.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:56:04 +0300")
Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
> Christopher Allan Webber (2016-03-28 19:39 +0300) wrote:
>
>> Alex Kost writes:
> [...]
>>> Hi, I also use double boot (GuixSD and ArchLinux). I do it like this:
>>> at first I never let GuixSD to reinstall grub by using --no-grub option
>>> ("guix system reconfigure --no-grub ..."). Instead I installed grub
>>> manually (into a separate "boot" partition) and I use my own "grub.cfg",
>>> which has an entry for the latest GuixSD system. This entry may look
>>> like this:
>>>
>>> menuentry 'GuixSD' {
>>> search --no-floppy --label --set guix
>>> linux /var/guix/profiles/system/kernel/bzImage --root=guix --system=/var/guix/profiles/system --load=/var/guix/profiles/system/boot
>>> initrd /var/guix/profiles/system/initrd
>>> }
>>>
>>> My grub config¹ also has entries for a previous system generation (I can
>>> boot any generation by editing a number in a grub boot menu) and for a
>>> particular system (sometimes I do "guix system build …" and put the
>>> result directory of this "testing" system to my grub.cfg).
>>>
>>> ¹ https://github.com/alezost/config/blob/master/etc/grub.cfg
>>
>> Hm, I think this approach is not quite as nice, IMO.
>
> Yeah, I think it is not suitable for most people, but it is very nice
> for me :-)
It would be interesting to see how we can better support this use case.
I know of at least one potential blocker, which is
<http://bugs.gnu.org/20067>, but probably there are other issues.
Ludo’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-29 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-25 16:32 Guix/GNU/Linux multi distro + GuixSD multi-site scenario myglc2
2016-03-26 23:31 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-27 0:53 ` myglc2
2016-03-27 1:48 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-27 17:18 ` myglc2
2016-03-28 10:31 ` Alex Kost
2016-03-28 14:09 ` myglc2
2016-03-28 14:32 ` Chris Marusich
2016-03-28 20:05 ` Alex Kost
2016-03-28 16:39 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-28 19:56 ` Alex Kost
2016-03-29 16:03 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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