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Re: Guix bios installation: Grub error: unknown filesystem
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Efraim Flashner |
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Re: Guix bios installation: Grub error: unknown filesystem |
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Thu, 2 May 2024 17:26:25 +0300 |
On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 10:33:31AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi!
>
> adanskana@gmail.com skribis:
>
> > I might try doing this. It's a little scary though, updating the
> > bootloader... What do you think would be the best way to test it? Should I
> > create a VM and test through that? Or is there a way I can invoke the
> > 'installation tests' that have been failing locally?
>
> Apparently the latest version needs a tiny patch mentioned here:
>
> https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter08/grub.html
>
> As for testing, the best option is to run a couple of installation
> tests:
>
> make check-system TESTS="installed-os encrypted-root-os"
>
> (See
> <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Running-the-Test-Suite.html>.)
I've also had some luck running similar tests with this command:
./pre-inst-env guix build --no-grafts -e \
'(@@ (gnu tests install) %test-gui-uefi-installed-os)'
> Those installation tests are expensive in terms of CPU and disk space;
> consider going for a walk while they’re running. :-)
Indeed. It first needs to rebuild guix with all your commits on top.
> Thanks for looking into this!
>
> Ludo’.
>
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