From: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Cc: 40839@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40839: Shepherd activation .GO files are not cross-compiled ... and the Hurd
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:35:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7x5w1hi.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871robtpjd.fsf@gnu.org> (Jan Nieuwenhuizen's message of "Sat, 25 Apr 2020 19:59:18 +0200")
Hello Janneke!
I had a look to (gnu system hurd), this is really nice! I think we could
try an explosive mixture of our two branches :)
More seriously, we could do something like:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(define hurd-disk-image
(image
(format 'disk-image)
(partitions
(list
(partition
(size 'guess)
(label "Guix_image")
(file-system "ext2")
(flags '(boot))
(initializer (gexp initialize-hurd-root-partition)))))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
then we could have some mapping in guix/scripts/system.scm to
associate:
* x86_64-linux -> efi-disk-image
* i586-pc-gnu -> hurd-disk-image
and one could get a hurd disk-image by typing:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix system disk-image --target=i586-pc-gnu my-hurd-os.scm
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
One problem that can arise is the installation of grub. Currently
wip-disk-image does not support legacy Grub (MBR based)
installation.
This is because running grub-install needs root permissions, to mess with
/dev/something in order to write the MBR I guess.
We could also create a Hurd ISO if grub-mkrescue (that is used to make
the ISO bootable), supports the Hurd.
Adding Ludo that might have some insight here.
Thanks,
Mathieu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-27 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-25 9:49 bug#40839: Shepherd activation .GO files are not cross-compiled ... and the Hurd Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-04-25 12:13 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-04-25 13:28 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-04-25 15:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-25 17:38 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-05-02 13:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-25 12:32 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-04-25 17:59 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-04-27 12:35 ` Mathieu Othacehe [this message]
2020-04-28 17:20 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-04-29 8:48 ` Mathieu Othacehe
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