Re: GuixSD on the SoftIron OverDrive 1000 (AArch64)

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Following advice and encouragements from Vagrant and Danny :-), I
> successfully installed GuixSD on the SoftIron OverDrive 1000 machine
> that was donated last January¹ (its PSU died a while back and I just
> received a replacement from SoftIron, and I thought it was also a good
> time to replace the distro.)

Ooh, nice!

> On the first boot, the GuixSD activation snippets fail while trying to
> install /etc, /etc/pam.d, and /etc/skel, and /etc/ssl because these
> directories already exist (from openSuSE) whereas GuixSD assumes that
> they don’t.  The solution is just to remove/rename them from the Guile
> initrd REPL.  Once this is done, booting proceeds flawlessly and
> happiness ensues.

We could do with a more powerful REPL ;-)

> ¹ https://gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/aarch64-build-machines-donated/

So...is there an opportunity for someone to start looking at a Reduced
Binary Seed boostrap for AArch64?

janneke.