Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> writes: > some...@selfhosted.xyz writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I have several times over tried to install to a LUKS-partition with >> btrfs and failed but last time I almost had success. guix init command >> complained that the bios_grub flag wasn't set after many hours of >> compiling packages and therefore didn't install grub at first. I >> checked the partition with "cryptsetup luksUUID /dev/sda1" before >> rerunning guix init and it gives me the luksUUID so the partition >> seemed intact up to that point. However, after setting the bios_grub >> flag and rerunning guix init, the installation is successful but >> afterwards the cryptsetup luksUUID command says that the partition is >> not a valid luks device, so it seems like the GRUB installation part >> is what ruins the partition. > > What is your partition layout? The "bios_grub" partition must be a > separate (typically tiny) partition with no other data on it.
FWIW, my current development system is GuixSD running with a LUKS-encrypted Btrfs root partition with GUID partition table. I don't remember encountering any difficulties during the install. Mark