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Subject: Re: Dualbooting with guixsd not handling grub installation
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Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:
>
>> Note that if all you want is dual-boot, this should already be possible
>> by defining new menu entries in the GuixSD config:
>>
>>   https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Bootloader-Configur=
ation.html#index-dual-boot
>
> Are linux linux-arguments initrd in menu-entry required?

Currently yes: this is how you tell GRUB what to boot.

> Maybe we could have configfile field?
> https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/configfile.html

Yes, we could do that.  One question is how to integrated properly since
=E2=80=98menu-entry=E2=80=99 is now bootloader-independent.  Perhaps Mathie=
u or Danny
have ideas?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.