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aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=fail ("headers rsa verify failed") header.d=riseup.net header.s=squak header.b=dOw9UBtP; dmarc=fail reason="SPF not aligned (relaxed)" header.from=riseup.net (policy=none); spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "bug-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="bug-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Spam-Score: 4.16 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=fail ("headers rsa verify failed") header.d=riseup.net header.s=squak header.b=dOw9UBtP; dmarc=fail reason="SPF not aligned (relaxed)" header.from=riseup.net (policy=none); spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "bug-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="bug-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 53F39381DD X-Spam-Score: 4.16 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn0.migadu.com X-TUID: inc7PKlRiY52 Disclaimer: the last time I used an ISO for installing Guix was before there was a graphical installer, so I'm not sure what it's expected to look like now. Anyways, I tried booting the latest release on a netbook, it failed around/after KMS. Kernel seemed to lock up. No panic, no usable visible log, not responding to Ctrl-Alt-Del, had to reboot with Sysrq-Alt-b. I added nomodeset to the kernel command line in GRUB and managed to boot it that way, although that still didn't immediately result in a usable terminal, vtty1 only had a non-blinking cursor if I recall correctly. Had to switch to vtty2 or above to do anything useful. So, most users can't be expected to know about nomodeset, so there should be a clearly labeled "safe graphics" mode, just like how some other distros do it. There have been other issues and discussions about generating multiple configs from a single reconfigure, this would be an important and practical use case for that. IMHO the simplest thing is to just let config files return a list of operating-system records and make that into a menu in GRUB. This would also cover the use case of wanting a boot time choice in kernels.