Re: Some questions regarding GuixSD

[宋文武]

address@hidden writes:

> On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 09:50:11AM +0800, 宋文武 wrote:
>> address@hidden 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 :-)