bug#56582: Installer does not detect or allow detection of other bootable partitions

2022-07-21 Thread Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
Hi Peter, Peter writes: > To expand on this, Guix installs GRUB. This is undeniable, and this is > where the problem begins.. over many years users are accustomed to GRUB > working in a certain way with specific tools.. when they encounter a grub > installation without grub-mkconfig, etc. they ar

bug#56582: Installer does not detect or allow detection of other bootable partitions

2022-07-16 Thread Peter
Hi, My concern is that what is written in the manual for bootloader-config and invoking-guix-system does not clearly communicate what needs to be done for those who have no exposure to either Guix or Scheme. I did actually view those entries at first, but it seemed theoretical at first glance and

bug#56582: Installer does not detect or allow detection of other bootable partitions

2022-07-16 Thread Julien Lepiller
If anything, you also need to chainload to boot on haiku, which is free software. So no reason not to implement it. Le 16 juillet 2022 11:59:29 GMT+02:00, Josselin Poiret a écrit : >Hello both of you, > >Julien Lepiller writes: >> Of course this is only a workaround I'm proposing, we should fi

bug#56582: Installer does not detect or allow detection of other bootable partitions

2022-07-16 Thread Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
Hello both of you, Julien Lepiller writes: > Of course this is only a workaround I'm proposing, we should fix the > installer to detect other OSs. Just adding that we don't have any Guix bootloader entry field to chainload into another bootloader, needed for some non-free system :) this would ne

bug#56582: Installer does not detect or allow detection of other bootable partitions

2022-07-15 Thread Julien Lepiller
Hi Peter, This is indeed not nice. Guix does not provide a useful package that would reinstall boot configuratipn because boot configuration is managed together with the rest of the system configuration. You need to update your /etc/config.scm to declare more entries, and reconfigure. Here are

bug#56582: Installer does not detect or allow detection of other bootable partitions

2022-07-15 Thread Peter
Hi, This is a particularly AWFUL user experience bug. Installing GUIX to a partition only lists GUIX in the grub boot menu afterward despite the existence of other bootable OSes on the drive. Ok fine thinks I, I will just need to manually run grub's mkconfig to force re-detection. But this comman