Hello, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis: > >> swedebugia <swedebu...@riseup.net> writes: >> >>> Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skrev: (11 januari 2019 23:32:12 CET) > > [...] > >>>>Apparently GRUB has a feature that records a "fallback" system to boot >>>>if booting fails. >>>> >>>>Maybe when reconfiguring, Guix could set the current system as the >>>>fallback so that it would always boot. >>>> >>>>If we did that, we'd want to warn the user somehow... not sure how to >>>>achieve that. >>>> >>>>Discussion of this feature at NixOS: >>>> >>>>https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/26332 >>> >>> I don't think automatic fallback is a good idea because it unnecessarily >>> complicates a now well working simple part of the OS. >>> KISS is a nice principle. >> >> I think exposing this GRUB feature would be good, even if not enabled by >> default. It does not seem very complicated and can be very useful for >> some users. > > I agree. > >> Unfortunately, it doesn’t help us when GRUB itself is broken with an >> upgrade, which I think is what was suggested earlier. > > We’ll have to assume (and ensure!) this doesn’t happen… Personally, I never thought about a guix failure here, more about power-outtage or anything we can't control. :D > Ludo’.
