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Trying to install Guix SD - grub-install fails
From: |
David Lecompte |
Subject: |
Trying to install Guix SD - grub-install fails |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Oct 2024 09:16:05 -0000 |
User-agent: |
Evolution 3.44.4-0ubuntu2 |
Hello all,
I never used Guix SD, only Guix on a foreign distro.
I want to install a system on an external SSD so that I can boot my PC
in case my default boot disk would have problems (I have my data on
other disks in this PC) and I decided to try with Guix SD.
With the guided installation in graphic mode, when I get to the point
where I say to install Guix on a whole disk and I have selected it, the
installer goes back to the first step, asking whether I want to install
Guix SD with the graphic installer or shell commands, so the graphic
install seems not to work.
Then I decided to try the installation with shell commands.
My desktop is a D8 with a blobless coreboot + seabios.
On my external SSD connected via USB and recognized as /dev/sdf (I have
6 internal disks, /dev/sda is the boot disk, then I have /dev/sdb to
/dev/sde and /dev/sdg, not sure why the external SSD got put in the
middle):
I created the following partitions and fs (DOS partition table):
/dev/sdf1: 1G formatted as ext4, for /boot, marked as bootable
/dev/sdf2: extended partition
/dev/sdf5: 922G formatted as btrfs, for /
/dev/sdf6: 8G, for swap
I have put labels on /dev/sdf1 and /dev/sdf5, I mounted /dev/sdf5 at
/mnt, created /mnt/boot and mounted /dev/sdf1 at /mnt/boot, did swapon
for /dev/sdf6. Then I launched herd, copied config.scm, edited it, and
launched guix system init, using the commands advised in the manual.
After a while (lots of things were worked on), I have:
---quote start---
guix system: error: '/gnu/store/xxx-grub-2.04/sbin/grub-install --no-
floppy target=i386-pc --bot-directory /mnt/boot /dev/sdf1' exited with
status 1; output follows:
Installing of i386-pc platform.
/gnu/store/xxx-grub-2.04/sbin/grub-install: warning: File system 'ext2'
doesn't support embedding.
/gnu/store/xxx-grub-2.04/sbin/grub-install: warning: Embedding is not
possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists.
However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged...
/gnu/store/xxx-grub-2.04/sbin/grub-install: error: will not proceed
with blocklists.
--- quote end ---
And then I get a shell prompt again.
My config.scm is:
(use-modules (gnu) (gnu system nss))
(use-service-modules desktop xorg)
(use-package-modules certs gnome)
(operating-system
(host-name "albert")
(timezone "Europe/Paris")
(locale "fr_FR.utf8")
(keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "fr"))
(bootloader (bootloader-configuration
(bootloader grub-bootloader)
(target "/dev/sdf1")
(keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))
(file-systems (append
(list (file-system
(device (file-system-label "guix-root"))
(mount-point "/")
(type "btrfs"))
(file-system
(device (file-system-label "guix-boot"))
(mount-point "/boot")
(type "ext4")))
%base-file-systems))
(users (cons (user-account
(name "david")
(comment "David")
(group "users")
(supplementary-groups '("wheel" "netdev"
"audio" "video")))
%base-user-accounts))
(packages (append (list
nss-certs
gvfs)
%base-packages))
(services (append (list (service mate-desktop-service-type)
(set-xorg-configuration
(xorg-configuration
(keyboard-layout keyboard-layout))))
%desktop-services))
(name-service-switch %mdns-host-lookup-nss))
I manually copied the file so there could be typos.
Did I do something wrong in the partition/filesystem choices, in the
installation procedure or in the config.scm?
Thanks,
David.
- Trying to install Guix SD - grub-install fails,
David Lecompte <=