From: Martin Castillo <castilma@uni-bremen.de>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 29662@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29662: 'guix gc' as user makes system unbootable
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 19:37:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <447fce3a-51bf-9f2a-d7ef-7e012698dba1@uni-bremen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871sj0fmgx.fsf@gnu.org>
Hi,
On 08.01.2018 15:34, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> Sorry for the delay.
No problem.
> Looking at guix/scripts/system.scm, ‘install-bootloader’ definitely
> installs the ‘bootcfg’ symlink, except if ‘grub-install’ fails—which is
> apparently the case in your transcript above.
Ok, makes sense.
> Why did you write “expected grub error”? A GRUB error is never
> something one should expect. :-)
I have currently set up /dev/sda3 as grub target, which is an ext4
partition. Since grub doesn't support embedding in ext, it fails. One
has to manually 'grub-install --force /dev/sda3'.
Good thing that you explained this. This is important for the other
issue in thread 'Dualbooting with guixsd not handling grub installation'.
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-11 17:21 bug#29662: 'guix gc' as user makes system unbootable Quiliro Ordonez Baca
2017-12-11 21:14 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-12-11 21:26 ` Quiliro Ordonez Baca
2017-12-11 21:40 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-12-11 22:03 ` Quiliro Ordonez Baca
2017-12-20 14:49 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-12-21 21:06 ` Quiliro Ordonez Baca
2017-12-17 22:23 ` Martin Castillo
2017-12-18 9:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-18 14:18 ` Martin Castillo
2017-12-18 14:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-18 14:46 ` Martin Castillo
2018-01-08 14:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-08 18:37 ` Martin Castillo [this message]
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