From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
rennes@openmailbox.org, guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
bug-hurd@gnu.org
Subject: Re: boot the Hurd with Guix
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 19:44:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEwRq=oQhMf-8qQSi-OPLrW5Pxdp3Wq+e1Q5C_NLo0Jk-8S3YA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171201161616.jbg2cfm4svwatveg@var.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr>
On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Congrats on the achievement :D
>
> Ludovic Courtès, on ven. 01 déc. 2017 14:17:48 +0100, wrote:
>> Also, in GRUB, you currently load ext2fs.static and exec explicitly.
>
> That's the normal way, yes. exec does the rest (including running
> startup).
>
>> BTW, the image you posted is in “raw” format. You would get a smaller
>> file by using the qcow2 format, which you can create with “qemu-img
>> create -f qcow2”.
>
> Well, using sparse files can work as well: create the image with
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=file.img bs=1M count=1 seek=1000
Or you can use truncate from gnu coreutils:
$ du -sh file.img
0 file.img
vince@dell:~$ ls -l file.img
-rw------- 1 vince vince 1073741824 déc. 1 19:43 file.img
vince@dell:~$ ls -lh file.img
-rw------- 1 vince vince 1,0G déc. 1 19:43 file.img
--
Vincent Legoll
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-01 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-27 19:05 boot the Hurd with Guix rennes
2017-12-01 13:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-01 16:16 ` Samuel Thibault
2017-12-01 18:44 ` Vincent Legoll [this message]
2017-12-01 18:46 ` Vincent Legoll
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2018-01-07 17:12 rennes
2018-01-08 10:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-08 10:20 ` Svante Signell
2018-01-08 10:38 ` Svante Signell
2018-01-10 2:03 ` rennes
2018-01-10 1:53 ` rennes
2017-11-28 1:16 rennes
2017-11-28 13:36 ` Daniel Pimentel
2017-11-28 15:18 ` ranvijay vijay
[not found] <20171127190559.DB3114E0034@mta-1.openmailbox.og>
2017-11-27 19:25 ` Manolis Ragkousis
[not found] <20171112210310.80B0E4E0031@mta-1.openmailbox.og>
2017-11-13 10:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-13 10:50 ` Samuel Thibault
2017-11-16 10:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-16 10:17 ` Manolis Ragkousis
2017-11-12 21:03 rennes
2017-11-11 19:46 rennes
2017-11-11 18:02 rennes
2017-11-11 18:16 ` Samuel Thibault
2017-11-11 18:47 ` Manolis Ragkousis
2017-11-12 12:16 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-11-11 21:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-18 3:25 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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