From: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Hosting a GuixSD server on commodity hosting platforms, a journey
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 19:51:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3c51a2c0-a3a0-da12-22a7-e2b2739520ca@cbaines.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shq76kkl.fsf@dustycloud.org>
On 02/12/16 04:06, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> Except, oops! This won't boot. We need to put GRUB on it.
>
> Well here's where I'm stuck for tonight. I don't know exactly what's
> needed; maybe either the -b flag, or --grub2-mbr, or some combination.
> The man page is a little bit overwhelming (I mean, xorrisofs is clearly
> featureful, credit there):
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/man_1_xorrisofs.html
>
> But how do I generate the right GRUB stuff to put there? Can I pull it
> off the USB image? Generate it separately?
>
> This web page is very long but appears to have the appropriate info (and
> unfortunately requires running arbitrary javascript to even render):
>
> http://lukeluo.blogspot.com/2013/06/grub-how-to-2-make-boot-able-iso-with.html
>
> ... so I guess the next steps are following roughly what's described at
> the bottom of the page?
>
> I wonder how other distros do this step.
Thanks for looking in to this Chris! I'm using Bytemark for personal
servers, and have tried and failed to install Guix from a Debian live
cd. But, they do support installing from arbitrary ISO images, this
would be great to get working.
The bash script which I guess Nix uses looks quite short [1], you might
find some useful inspiration there.
1:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/lib/make-iso9660-image.sh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-02 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-29 19:59 Hosting a GuixSD server on commodity hosting platforms, a journey Christopher Allan Webber
2016-11-30 4:50 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-11-30 11:38 ` ng0
2016-11-30 18:57 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-11-30 22:00 ` ng0
2016-11-30 15:08 ` Marius Bakke
2016-11-30 18:18 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-11-30 16:41 ` Chris Marusich
2016-12-01 16:52 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-12-02 4:06 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-12-02 6:22 ` Chris Marusich
2016-12-02 17:39 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-12-02 19:51 ` Christopher Baines [this message]
2016-12-02 23:20 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2016-12-03 19:13 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-12-03 18:24 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-12-02 20:53 ` Christopher Allan Webber
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