Trouble booting Guix System

Trouble booting Guix System

[Tom Willemse]

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Hey everyone,

I just installed Guix System on my PC and now I'm having some trouble
getting it to boot. When I start up and after I go through grub I just
get a few seemingly innocuous messages and then it just stops.

I've tried both the stable and latest installation images with the same
effect for both. I installed with encryption using the whole disk.

I've attached a screenshot of everything I see when I try to boot.

Any help in figuring out what's going wrong would be greatly appreciated
:) Thanks in advance!


Cheers,

Tom


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Re: Trouble booting Guix System

[Joshua Branson]

I actually couldn't get encryption to work for my on my librebooted
machine.  I re-installed with just 1 unencrypted ext4 machine, and now I
can use guix system.  Not really a fix I know, but you might give that a try.

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Re: Trouble booting Guix System

[Tom Willemse]

Hey Joshua,

Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de> writes:

> I actually couldn't get encryption to work for my on my librebooted
> machine.  I re-installed with just 1 unencrypted ext4 machine, and now I
> can use guix system.  Not really a fix I know, but you might give that a try.

Thanks! I guess I'll have to forego encrypting my root drive for now.

Re: Trouble booting Guix System

[Tom Willemse]

Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de> writes:

> I actually couldn't get encryption to work for my on my librebooted
> machine.  I re-installed with just 1 unencrypted ext4 machine, and now I
> can use guix system.  Not really a fix I know, but you might give that a try.

I've tried installing without encryption, but I still get the same
behavior. I did notice these lines in my messages log, I'm guessing this
certainly isn't good. I don't have any experience with the linux-libre
kernel, but I'm guessing it's a problem with my video card needing
non-free firmware?

amdgpu: mc: Failed to load firmware "/*(DEBLOBBED)*/"
[drm:gmc_v8_0_sw_init [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Failed to load mc firmware!
[drm:amdgpu_device_init [amdgpu]] *ERROR* sw_init of IP block <gmc_v8_0> failed -2
amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: amdgpu_device_ip_init failed
amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: Fatal error during GPU init
[drm] amdgpu: finishing device.
amdgpu: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -2

Re: Trouble booting Guix System

[Joshua Branson]

Yeah, any AMD graphics card is going to have a hard time.   Without the
firmware files, those graphics cards are nearly useless.  There's some
really old nvidia cards that work fairly well.  There's probably a
kernel parameter you could pass that would disable the AMD graphics
driver from loading.

The Intel CPU graphics driver is one of the better ones for running
libre graphics software.  :)

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