Re: Call for testers for bootloader subsystem rewrite!

[Efraim Flashner]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 04:28:15PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Lilah,
> 
> Lilah Tascheter <lilah@lunabee.space> skribis:
> 
> > I just submitted a patchset containing a full rewrite of Guix's
> > bootloader subsystem, as in its current state, it was only really meant
> > to support GRUB. Seeing as we support a large variety of bootloaders,
> > and a bug in this subsystem could be disasterous, I figured I'd ask for
> > testers here.
> >
> > So, anyone willing to throw an experimental patchset at some
> > (recoverable!) hardware, please test it out and tell me any issues you
> > encounter!
> >
> > Link on the issue tracker: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/72457
> 
> Just to let you know that I flagged this patch set a while ago already:
> I think this is much needed and looks like a step in the right
> direction, but I just haven’t allocated time to review it yet.
> Apologies!
> 
> Could someone from the embedded or core teams (Cc’d) give a hand?

I'm currently traveling and won't be back home with my other devices
until the beginning of September. In the meantime I can see about making
sure that grub-efi on a pinebook-pro works fine since I can boot that
from an SD card.

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