Hello, On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:23:50AM +0100, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > > Notice that the last section of the blog post does not solve the problem: > > As I realised by trial and error when trying to use a disk-image for a > > virtual machine, it really is only an installation-image, since user data > > is stored in an overlay file system that is lost upon reboot. > It's only true if your image is including "%installation-services" that > provides "cow-store-service". That's why in the mpd.scm from the article > the system is not inherited from beaglebone-black-installation-os. By > starting from mpd.scm you should be able to write a system config that > can boot and be used directly without any further installation step.
I see, that is a very interesting observation! Is it documented anywhere? A further naive question: How does it differ from a vm-image then? > Thanks, I hope you will be able to produce a working GuixSD image for > your target. Don't hesitate to ask other questions! I should give it a try, once I have a bit of time, which probably means not before the weekend. Thanks! Andreas
