From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Dualbooting with guixsd not handling grub installation
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 14:15:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mv0nd1bm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8r1me1t.fsf@gmail.com> (Oleg Pykhalov's message of "Thu, 01 Feb 2018 09:14:54 +0300")
Hi,
Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> skribis:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> skribis:
>
> [...]
>
>>> Are linux linux-arguments initrd in menu-entry required?
>>
>> Currently yes: this is how you tell GRUB what to boot.
>
> I see an issue with it, because not always you want them.
>
>>> 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
>> ‘menu-entry’ is now bootloader-independent. Perhaps Mathieu or Danny
>> have ideas?
>
> We could start by adding a way to add anything. Here is a patch.
> Probably ugly, but as a draft and idea about additional-options.
>
> From 7d7162a8ec78c84e7eba3ae9f7c4fbf07703617e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 08:59:30 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] bootloader: Add additional-options to menu-entry.
>
> * gnu/bootloader.scm (<menu-entry>)[additional-options]: New field.
> * gnu/bootloader/grub.scm (grub-configuration-file): Handle this.
[...]
> Which allows to use additional-options in menu-entry:
>
> (operating-system
> …
> (bootloader
> (bootloader-configuration
> (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)
> (target "/boot/efi")
> (menu-entries
> (list (menu-entry
> (label "Another distro")
> (linux "")
> (initrd "")
> (additional-options '("search --label --set another-disk-label"
> "configfile /boot/grub/grub.cfg")))))))
> …)
I think we should keep ‘menu-entry’ bootloader-independent. I’m
actually not sure what problem we’re trying to solve: is it that the
‘root’ variable in GRUB gets set to the wrong partition when you try to
dual-boot?
In that case, perhaps a solution would be to add a ‘root’ field to
<menu-entry>, that could default to 'auto to obtain the current
behavior?
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-05 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-09 23:35 Dualbooting with guixsd not handling grub installation Martin Castillo
2017-12-10 1:11 ` Jelle Licht
2017-12-10 11:41 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2017-12-11 9:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-14 2:27 ` Martin Castillo
2017-12-15 14:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-17 12:29 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2017-12-18 9:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-01 6:14 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-02-01 8:06 ` Félicien Pillot
2018-02-02 22:34 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-02-05 13:15 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-02-06 12:25 ` Oleg Pykhalov
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