all messages for Guix-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
To: David Craven <david@craven.ch>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: How does install-grub work?
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 20:57:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160829205734.0b49dc92@scratchpost.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL1_im=WOZ9K8grPA7jqxUk6wnpjWfq7PoN55Qss+G6pN_vKCg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 20:20:30 +0200
David Craven <david@craven.ch> wrote:

> > Note: It should infer the correct u-boot to use on its own - at least that's the intention with the whole make-u-boot-package thing.  
> 
> Did you see the updated u-boot patch? It includes support for
> cross-compilation,

Nice!

> so make-u-boot-package takes a xgcc package and a
> target triplet as arguments. So it probably broke the inference.

No, I think I didn't make it work yet.

I've modeled along the lines of what was already there for Grub. But I've got no idea where gnu/build/install.scm's install-grub finds "grub-install" - so the u-boot part doesn't work either since I don't know where to put the package reference in the first place (or how in the world it works for Grub to begin with).

Also, there's a few mysterious things with install-grub.

For example the documentation in the function header there says

  "Install Grub with GRUB.CFG on DEVICE, which is assumed to be
mounted on MOUNT-POINT."

I really doubt that it actually does what it says since usually grub is installed on the drive MBR and not inside a partition. And MOUNT-POINT is a mounted filesystem on a partition, right? So the whole drive is certainly not mounted at MOUNT-POINT.

MOUNT-POINT originally comes from guix/scripts/system.scm - process-action. And that is called by process-command. And that is called by guix-system which is used when invoking "guix system" "reconfigure". But I've never specified a mountpoint when invoking that...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-29 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-05 18:37 [PATCH 02/12] import: utils: Symbols from 'license->symbol' have a license: prefix David Craven
2016-08-05 18:37 ` [PATCH 03/12] gnu: python: Import guix licenses with #:prefix license: David Craven
2016-08-05 18:37 ` [PATCH 04/12] gnu: python: Add python-binaryornot David Craven
2016-08-08 20:37   ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-22 12:05     ` David Craven
2016-08-22 12:14       ` David Craven
2016-08-22 13:20         ` [PATCH 01/11] import: utils: Symbols from 'license->symbol' have a license: prefix David Craven
2016-08-22 13:20           ` [PATCH 02/11] gnu: python: Import guix licenses with #:prefix license: David Craven
2016-08-26 20:55             ` David Craven
2016-08-22 13:20           ` [PATCH 03/11] gnu: Add python-binaryornot David Craven
2016-08-22 13:20           ` [PATCH 04/11] gnu: Add python-nltk David Craven
2016-08-27  8:39             ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-10-24 21:15             ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-22 13:20           ` [PATCH 05/11] gnu: Add python-pymongo David Craven
2016-08-22 13:20           ` [PATCH 06/11] gnu: Add python-sh David Craven
2016-08-27  8:42             ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-28 12:28               ` David Craven
2016-08-29 10:31                 ` Guix with U-Boot Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 11:25                   ` David Craven
2016-08-29 14:12                     ` David Craven
2016-08-29 14:19                       ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 16:51                         ` David Craven
2016-08-29 17:20                           ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 17:52                             ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 18:10                               ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 17:38                           ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 18:16                           ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 18:20                             ` David Craven
2016-08-29 18:56                               ` David Craven
2016-08-29 19:04                                 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 18:57                               ` Danny Milosavljevic [this message]
2016-08-29 20:29                                 ` How does install-grub work? David Craven
2016-08-29 20:50                                   ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 20:54                                     ` David Craven
2016-08-29 21:19                                       ` David Craven
2016-08-29 21:57                                         ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 22:00                                           ` David Craven
2016-08-29 22:14                                             ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-30 15:33                                               ` David Craven
2016-08-29 21:45                                       ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-29 22:04                                         ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-22 13:20           ` [PATCH 07/11] gnu: Add python-schematics David Craven
2016-08-22 13:20           ` [PATCH 08/11] gnu: Add python-publicsuffix David Craven
2016-08-22 13:20           ` [PATCH 09/11] gnu: Add python-publicsuffix2 David Craven
2016-08-22 13:20           ` [PATCH 10/11] gnu: Add python-url David Craven
2016-08-22 13:20           ` [PATCH 11/11] gnu: Add python-ipaddress David Craven
2016-08-05 18:37 ` [PATCH 05/12] gnu: python: Add python-nltk David Craven
2016-08-05 18:37 ` [PATCH 06/12] gnu: python: Add python-pymongo David Craven
2016-08-08 20:36   ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-08 20:39     ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-05 18:37 ` [PATCH 07/12] gnu: python: Add python-sh David Craven
2016-08-05 18:37 ` [PATCH 08/12] gnu: python: Add python-schematics David Craven
2016-08-05 18:37 ` [PATCH 09/12] gnu: python: Add python-publicsuffix David Craven
2016-08-05 18:37 ` [PATCH 10/12] gnu: python: Add python-publicsuffix2 David Craven
2016-08-05 18:37 ` [PATCH 11/12] gnu: python: Add python-url David Craven
2016-08-05 18:37 ` [PATCH 12/12] gnu: python: Add python-ipaddress David Craven
2016-08-05 18:50   ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-06 12:52     ` David Craven
2016-08-06 15:57       ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-07  0:20       ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-27  6:43 ` [PATCH 02/12] import: utils: Symbols from 'license->symbol' have a license: prefix Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-27  8:31   ` David Craven
2016-08-30 19:07     ` Eric Bavier
2016-09-16  5:03       ` Eric Bavier
2016-09-16  7:29         ` David Craven
2016-09-16 15:40           ` Eric Bavier
2016-09-16 15:47             ` David Craven
2016-09-16 17:02               ` Eric Bavier
2016-09-19 13:06                 ` Ludovic Courtès

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20160829205734.0b49dc92@scratchpost.org \
    --to=dannym@scratchpost.org \
    --cc=david@craven.ch \
    --cc=guix-devel@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.