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Subject: Re: Unable to boot GuixSD USB stick
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 07:37:12 +0000
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For the record, perhaps it would be useful to others in the same
situation to be hinted to read what's in grub.cfg: it contains the
reference to boot file and boot prompt (see the menu entry).
Using these references I was able to complete a boot. Don't forget to
include all options in the "linux =E2=80=A6" command (boot file)
piotr
On 10/04/2017, =E8=89=AF=CF=96 wrote:
> I've got some new stuff:
>
> Using Grub2 command line I am able to invoke `ls` to see all available
> device / partitions and guixsd bootable partition is present as
> (hd0,msdos1).
>
> So I want to boot Linux manually from Grub2 command line.
> set root=3D(hd0,msdos1)
>
> Next steps are to set boot files and boot prompt. I found nothing like
> "vmlinuz" at the root (it would be too easy) but after some meandering
> I find the two files /boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img and
> /boot/grub/i386-pc/boot.img
>
> linux /boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img
> returns error: "invalid magic number"
>
> linux /boot/grub/i386-pc/boot.img
> returns error: "unexpected end of file /boot/grub/i386-pc/boot.img"
>
> I have some questions:
> - Where in the bootable partition is the boot file I should launch?
> - If this boot file is core.img, how should I fix this magic number?
> - If this boot file is boot.img, how do I make sure the file has been
> correctly copied?
> - Is the image really usable "out of the box" or does it require some
> tuning?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> piotr
>
> On 09/04/2017, =E8=89=AF=CF=96 wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've followed instructions on this page:
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/USB-Stick-Installatio=
n.html#USB-Stick-Installation
>>
>> everything goes smoothly and at the end I get a partition named
>> "gnu-disk-image" with flag "boot". Sounds good. When I mount it it's a
>> classical GNU / Linux root with folders bin, root, dev, etc, gnu,
>> home, mnt, root, run, tmp and var.
>>
>> However when I reboot the key isn't recognised by my laptop so I'm
>> unable to install it :'(
>>
>> Any ideas how I could solve that?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> piotr
>>
>