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: Sun, 02 May 2021 18:08:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmy84wlr.fsf@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACw=CXNfu=PgZdiDAW32Jj0YyUxaUHFgp27bSkhMgU8t6aqYhg@mail.gmail.com> (Vladilen Kozin's message of "Sat, 1 May 2021 14:01:22 +0100")
Vladilen Kozin <vladilen.kozin@gmail.com> writes:
> IMO good solution would be to have Grub load just enough of whatever
> kernel is doing to find that drive and make its contents available. I
> doubt one can do that, but maybe one can boot into some kernel and
> initrd and then "chain" load the Grub on that SSD? I've no clue how to
> do that, but I'm sure its possible: kernel is code running in memory,
> surely it can "load" and "pass control" over to Grub or smth. If
> anyone knows, do tell.
I think you just don't want to use the "slow" hard drive right? I
personally use a hard drive, and I am content with the performance. I
just prefer to use the old lenovo T400. I think it cost me $300 USD to
assemble it. Not to shabby. :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-02 22:09 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
2021-05-01 13:01 ` Vladilen Kozin
2021-05-02 22:08 ` Joshua Branson [this message]
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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