From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Markus Aholainen <markus.aholainen@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Trying to install GuixSD on QEMU
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 14:46:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190305194653.GA4395@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADez1UePqWLVnh3C2svH9+S9gHgMffHpma74pHeMWDeMFhmy_w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 08:11:29PM +0200, Markus Aholainen wrote:
> I would really like to try out GuixSD using Windows 10 host. I am following
> the instructions
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Installing-GuixSD-in-a-VM.html
>
> The first question is about the point " In the VM console, quickly press
> the F12 key to enter the boot menu. Then press the 2 key and the RET key to
> validate your selection."
>
> F12 key does absolutely nothing, however Esc shows the boot medium
> selection - is this what F12 is supposed to do? Is there an error in the
> instructions or is the QEMU on Windows is just different?
>
> If I select the 2 (guixsd.img) booting fails. Again, error in the
> instructions?
>
> Selecting 1 (guixsd-install-0.16.0.x86_64-linux.iso) boots and I should
> create partition on the guixsd.img that is /dev/sdb, right? (And after that
> mount it on /mnt, etc...)
> That fails saying "floppy: error 10 while reading block 0".
>
> Help would be helpfull : )
> I am pretty much stuck now.
Please share the exact command line you used to start QEMU, and the
version of QEMU used.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-05 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-05 18:11 Trying to install GuixSD on QEMU Markus Aholainen
2019-03-05 19:46 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2019-03-05 20:20 ` Markus Aholainen
2019-03-31 14:12 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
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