Re: Some questions regarding GuixSD

[ng0 <ngillmann@runbox.com>]

宋文武 <iyzsong@member.fsf.org> writes:

> dian_cecht@zoho.com writes:
>
>> On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 09:50:11AM +0800, 宋文武 wrote:
>>> dian_cecht@zoho.com writes:
>>> 
>>> On GuixSD, you can rollback the whole system safely and easily (by
>>> choosing a grub menu item at boot).
>>
>> I don't guess you happen to be able to supply me with the options passed to do
>> this, would you?
>
> Ah, that's managed by guix on GuixSD, which produces a grub.cfg with menu
> containing all systems (current and previous if not deleted explicitly)
> it ever built.  No option needed.
>
>> My systems aren't exactly standard installs, and I don't use
>> GRUB for anything at the moment (this may or may not change depending on where I
>> feel Guix fits into my systems, and whether I end up migrating everything over,
>> or if it's just one computer that has a GuixSD install on it).
>
> OK, muli-boot with GuixSD can be done with chainloader, etc. but it's a
> bit tricky.  You probably want to try it in a VM (eg: guix system vm)
> first :-)

I think we should add this to the docs, this is a relatively regular
occuring question, the multi booting.

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