From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: Fabian Boucsein <fabian.boucsein@googlemail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problems with grub2
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:28:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <876151368d.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+nAsLtujqDufndbYBLxWZh0EXtpjrahBCT0CfrXFEGSDqJRdQ@mail.gmail.com> (Fabian Boucsein's message of "Thu, 30 Jul 2015 08:33:05 +0200")
Fabian Boucsein (2015-07-30 09:33 +0300) wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> thanks for yiur answer. The error i get when guix is trying to
> install grub2 is about too many disk label. With devices in mind
> there are three ways to configure grub2. Devices, label and uuids.
> Looking
> at my configuration i am already saying that i want to use device
> names to identify my devices. Or is something wrong with my
> configuration and / or my understanding of it? Why is grub bothering
> about disk label anyway? Looking at my arch linux with its
> automatically configured grub2 there are uuids in use.
> Are device names unusual in grub2 and should i use uuids instead?
I would suggest to forget about GuixSD config for now and to try
"grub-install" manually to see if it fails or not. If it is OK, you may
check "grub-mkconfig" with the generated config ("…grub.cfg" can be
found in /gnu/store).
--
Alex
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-30 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-28 21:07 Problems with grub2 Fabian Boucsein
2015-07-29 7:36 ` Alex Kost
2015-07-30 6:33 ` Fabian Boucsein
2015-07-30 17:28 ` Alex Kost [this message]
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