From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?6Imvz5Y=?= Subject: Re: Unable to boot GuixSD USB stick Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 07:24:54 +0000 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: pierre@2bst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33566) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cxTh3-00045b-GS for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Apr 2017 03:24:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cxTh2-0006ND-6z for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Apr 2017 03:24:57 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-x235.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::235]:34275) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cxTh2-0006N6-24 for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Apr 2017 03:24:56 -0400 Received: by mail-qk0-x235.google.com with SMTP id p68so76200305qke.1 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:24:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org 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 tunin= g? 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-Installation= .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 >