How is that different than RAID or LUKS support not being available through that mechanism? I need to run 'mdadm --create' or 'cryptsetup luksFormat' externally to config.scm too. It appears to me th
The manual is quite clear that LVM support is missing: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Limitations.html This held me back from using guix as the OS for my virtualization servers since I use
Hi, I'm trying to install guix (inside qemu) with "/" on lvm on luks on sda2. sda1 contains the efi partition: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS fd0 2:0 1 4K 0 disk sda 8:0 0 30G 0 disk ├─
Thanks for pointer! Maybe some examples like this could be added to the manual. I'll experiment a bit too and see if I can propose something... What do you expect from a lvm device-mapper? When I tho
Hey Simon! I use a root fs on lvm. What helped me a lot was this posting, where I stole most things: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2020-02/msg00285.html What (currrently) isnt working i
What's missing is support in the configuration system: the ability to declare a LVM mapped device in the OS configuration and expect 'guix system init', 'guix system reconfigure' etc to work. LVM 2.0
Hi geeks, I try to install Guix System on LVM on LUKS. Installation succeeded, but the system can't boot. When powered on, GRUB stops with: Ok, I fixed that problem by doing: However, now I get the f
Hi Emmanuel, did you add the cryptsetup-static and lvm2-static packages to the packages field of your operating system? Apart from that, I think you also need to add the dm-crypt module to the initrd
Hi Emmanuel, You might want to look into adding missing modules to the initramfs (https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Initial-RAM-Disk.html). I had to do this so I could boot a system with Linux
Hello, I am currently trying to install Guix System on my laptop and I am facing an issue with the bootloader configuration. I use full-disk encryption with a single encrypted partition, split into s
De wolf le 04/03/2023 à 00:42: I just tried that: mounting the EFI partition in /boot/efi instead of /boot and adujsting the config.scm accordingly (the entry for /boot/efi in file-systems and the t
Hi geeks, I try to install Guix System on LVM on LUKS. My config.scm based on lightweight-desktop.scm [1]. Installation succeeded, but the system can't boot. First, the bzImage not found [2], [3], [4
Just posting to give you some help... Link to the bug report: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=21843 f7f292d359e0eb77617f4ecf6b3164f868ec1784 is the commit that fixed it. I hope this hel
Maybe that is the problem? For me it works out of the box, but I have EFI mounted as /boot/efi. Could you maybe either try to do that as well, or (untested idea I just had) provide (dependencies mapp
Hi Roman, Thanks for the suggestions. De Roman Scherer le 03/03/2023 à 16:05: I had not, but I just tried adding them and nothing changed. Unless I am missing something, tinkering with initrd module
Hi Joshua, Thanks for helping me solve the first problem. After some RTFM, I found that adding to the root file system definition solves the second. Best regards, Nikolay
Hi, Sorry for the duplication. I didn't know that the very first email always arrives with delay. This one is an offline version without links and hopefully written more clearly. Best regards, Nikola
Have you seen Raghav's guide? https://flossmanuals.net/pub/guix-system-and-libreboot.pdf https://notabug.org/libreboot/libreboot/src/master/docs/gnulinux/guix_system.md I hope that helps.
Thank you Joshua! I appreciate you tracking down the commit (and committer). Searching Mikhail Tsykalov I did not find any way to give him a tip, but I did find a relevant issue that he published. Gu