From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
To: Rene <ikhuuma@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: create a symlink
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 09:22:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190309092214.2cef348d@scratchpost.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cucbm2l3w9i.fsf@gmail.com>
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Hi Rene,
On Fri, 08 Mar 2019 15:13:13 -0600
Rene <ikhuuma@gmail.com> wrote:
> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:
>
> >
> > What is supposed to load the "/hurd" that would be created ?
> >
>
> After starting GNU Mach microkernel, the hurd translators are required to start
> the operating system.
>
> At the moment all components like gnumach, hurd servers point to /hurd.
>
> Maybe there is a way to avoid links?
I see. I ask because usually the part that loads that can be adapted and
is also a better place to do the adaption in the first place--instead of
hard-coding "/hurd". After all, we want eventually to have the ability
to roll back the system by selecting a previous generation in the
bootloader menu again. That doesn't work all that well with the "/hurd"
link.
But as far as I understand, you boot Debian/Hurd or something and then
it loads Guix, right?
In that case, we can understand the GNU Mach microkernel as a bootloader
(from our vantage point) and thus emit the /hurd link in the "bootloader"
configuration. It's not that clean, but it works (sans rollback, though).
Cleaner would be to also boot Guix's gnumach microkernel.
It seems that https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/grub.html documents
how to get grub to boot mach and then hurd--and it seems that there, the
paths are specified.
It should be easy to adapt gnu/bootloader/grub.scm's grub-configuration-file
to emit those and then reconfigure.
(Later, we could add "multiboot" and "modules" to <menu-entry> in
gnu/bootloader.scm)
However, it's a dangerous part to modify since this part cannot be rolled
back easily. So don't make a typo ;)
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-08 21:13 create a symlink Rene
2019-03-09 8:22 ` Danny Milosavljevic [this message]
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2019-03-28 1:54 Rene
2019-04-03 7:12 ` Chris Marusich
2019-03-12 20:57 Rene
2019-03-13 11:25 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-03-13 14:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-03-25 23:06 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-04-19 2:54 Rene
2018-04-19 6:26 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-04-19 21:23 ` Joshua Branson
2018-04-21 14:31 ` Rene
2018-04-27 5:20 ` Rene
2018-04-27 15:08 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-03-07 22:11 ` Rene
2019-03-08 8:15 ` Danny Milosavljevic
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