From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: ng0 <ngillmann@runbox.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some questions regarding GuixSD
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 15:14:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oa32hozz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r380xxxk.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> (ng0's message of "Sat, 01 Oct 2016 08:42:31 +0000")
ng0 <ngillmann@runbox.com> skribis:
> 宋文武 <iyzsong@member.fsf.org> writes:
>
>> dian_cecht@zoho.com writes:
>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 09:50:11AM +0800, 宋文武 wrote:
>>>> dian_cecht@zoho.com writes:
>>>>
>>>> On GuixSD, you can rollback the whole system safely and easily (by
>>>> choosing a grub menu item at boot).
>>>
>>> I don't guess you happen to be able to supply me with the options passed to do
>>> this, would you?
>>
>> Ah, that's managed by guix on GuixSD, which produces a grub.cfg with menu
>> containing all systems (current and previous if not deleted explicitly)
>> it ever built. No option needed.
>>
>>> My systems aren't exactly standard installs, and I don't use
>>> GRUB for anything at the moment (this may or may not change depending on where I
>>> feel Guix fits into my systems, and whether I end up migrating everything over,
>>> or if it's just one computer that has a GuixSD install on it).
>>
>> OK, muli-boot with GuixSD can be done with chainloader, etc. but it's a
>> bit tricky. You probably want to try it in a VM (eg: guix system vm)
>> first :-)
>
> I think we should add this to the docs, this is a relatively regular
> occuring question, the multi booting.
This has been added recently, after a couple of related bugs were fixed
(info "(guix) GRUB Configuration").
Ludo’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-02 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-30 1:09 Some questions regarding GuixSD dian_cecht
2016-09-30 8:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-30 12:07 ` ng0
2016-09-30 16:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-30 16:47 ` ng0
2016-09-30 19:50 ` dian_cecht
2016-09-30 19:46 ` dian_cecht
2016-10-01 1:50 ` 宋文武
2016-10-01 2:19 ` dian_cecht
2016-10-01 3:42 ` 宋文武
2016-10-01 8:42 ` ng0
2016-10-02 13:14 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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