Hi Simon,
What is the status of this old bug
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/32944
Unchanged.
Currently, the kernel and the initrd are stored somewhere in
/gnu/store
and the GRUB configuration is generated to point to these things
directly. This means that the disk containing /gnu/store must
be
readable in GRUB. This is not always the case.
Consider the case where /gnu/store should be hosted on an
external
storage array connected redundantly via HBAs. The disks might
not be
visible in GRUB and only become available once Linux has booted.
This could be made to work by adding an option to “guix system
reconfigure” to copy all things that are needed for starting
Linux
(e.g. the kernel, the initrd, …), and then mount /gnu/store from
the
specified location once Linux is up.
This is still a deployment that Guix does not support. Arguably,
it should.
--
Ricardo
