From: Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>
To: "Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Testing the installer
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:07:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200123230746.GA3116@LionPure> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE4v=pj6R70pvLVPEsVYjJo+sd77bj1QV0=CTHYoBcL=c7VTgw@mail.gmail.com>
Hello Gábor,
On +2020-01-23 12:21:27 +0100, Gábor Boskovits wrote:
[...]
> This is a bit off topic, but I am about to create an automatic
> installer, that is
> a candidate for a new backend. It currently works by providing a configuration
> record, and then executes a few things from the installer.
>
> (It does a lookup for a candidate installation target disk, autopartitions it,
> then injects the bootloader and file-system fields into an operating-system
> template, and finally does a system installation.)
>
Will your installer be able to create /boot and / images that will
work with Coreboot/SeaBios/grub legacy-only (not UEFI) bootable systems
(like PureOS)?
IOW, what kind of BIOS systems is it dependent on?
> I will have a look at the new protocol soon, to see if this project
> can benefit from that.
[...]
>
> Best regards,
> g_bor
> --
> OpenPGP Key Fingerprint: 7988:3B9F:7D6A:4DBF:3719:0367:2506:A96C:CF63:0B21
>
--
Regards,
Bengt Richter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-23 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-12 22:13 Testing the installer Ludovic Courtès
2020-01-12 23:34 ` sirgazil
2020-01-20 17:49 ` sirgazil
2020-01-14 8:02 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-01-22 22:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-01-23 9:41 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-01-23 11:21 ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-01-23 23:07 ` Bengt Richter [this message]
2020-01-24 7:48 ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-01-24 9:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-01-23 14:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-01-20 11:47 ` Jonathan Brielmaier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-06-13 3:57 swedebugia
2018-06-13 19:47 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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