Mathieu Othacehe writes: Hello Mathieu!
> I had a look to (gnu system hurd), this is really nice! I think we could > try an explosive mixture of our two branches :) Sure, why not? ;-) I played a bit yesterday with wip-disk-image. Not that (gnu system hurd) already lives on core-updates; possibly we can start playing there? I tried rebasing wip-disk-image on core-updates and that was (almost?) painless. > More seriously, we could do something like: > > (define hurd-disk-image > (image > (format 'disk-image) > (partitions > (list > (partition > (size 'guess) > (label "Guix_image") > (file-system "ext2") > (flags '(boot)) > (initializer (gexp initialize-hurd-root-partition))))))) Sweet! > then we could have some mapping in guix/scripts/system.scm to > associate: > > * x86_64-linux -> efi-disk-image > * i586-pc-gnu -> hurd-disk-image > > and one could get a hurd disk-image by typing: > > guix system disk-image --target=i586-pc-gnu my-hurd-os.scm Oh, that sounds real great. > One problem that can arise is the installation of grub. Currently > wip-disk-image does not support legacy Grub (MBR based) > installation. > > This is because running grub-install needs root permissions, to mess with > /dev/something in order to write the MBR I guess. Hmm...so we need to do some work, is that bad? > We could also create a Hurd ISO if grub-mkrescue (that is used to make > the ISO bootable), supports the Hurd. > > Adding Ludo that might have some insight here. Hopefully -- this is also pretty out of my comfort zone, otoh I am very motivated to get this going. :-) I have been wondering about the branch name in combination with its functionality: can/will/could "wip-disk-image" also be used for guix system init/reconfigure (we don't have qemu on the Hurd)? Greetings, janneke -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.com
