From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Automatically detect other OSs and generate grub entries
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 01:29:41 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1272df80.AEEANfr63OcAAAAAAAAAAAOtZhgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZbRc4@mailjet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zic36v7y.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> skribis:
>
>> Instead of having to manually specify custom grub entries in config.scm,
>> can Guix use os-prober to automatically detect other operating system
>> and generate grub entries?
>>
>> https://joeyh.name/code/os-prober/
>
> I think there is value in having everything in the GuixSD config, which
> can then be put under version control.
>
> Now, I have a single OS on my machines so I’m probably not part of the
> target audience. :-)
>
> Thoughts?
I too now only have a single OS. So, I don't really need this feature
either. But, I do think we should offer an user experience as close as
possible to other distros. Hence, I think automatic os detection and
grub generation is worthwile. It's nice to have the grub work
automagically out of the box.
Also, I noticed that custom grub entries are a problem for the proposed
"guix system delete-generations"
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-03/msg00194.html
Would automatic grub generation solve, or at least alleviate, this
problem?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-17 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-12 20:42 Automatically detect other OSs and generate grub entries Arun Isaac
2017-07-17 13:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-17 17:38 ` Amirouche Boubekki
2017-07-18 10:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-08-29 19:23 ` Arun Isaac
[not found] ` <5d344b4e.ADkAAC1SuZUAAAAAAAAAAAOzWv8AAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZpb8_@mailjet.com>
2017-08-30 10:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-08-30 11:56 ` Arun Isaac
2017-07-17 19:59 ` Arun Isaac [this message]
[not found] ` <b2c51b44.AEEANfr63OgAAAAAAAAAAAOzWv8AAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZbRc4@mailjet.com>
2017-07-18 10:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
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