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#20071
grub-configuration needs a "force" flag
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Reported by: Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker <at> suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 12:00:05 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
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#20071: grub-configuration needs a "force" flag
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Dear,
On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 16:31, zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 14:37, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > Do you still think that would make sense, Tomáš?
>
> The email address used by Tomáš returned "address not found". And
> yesterday I asked to Sleep_Walker on IRC (assuming same nick = same
> person :-)) what is the new address to report.
>
If this wishlist bug still makes senses, please re-open it.
Thank you.
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On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 09:35:42AM +0100, Tomas Cech wrote:
>At Fri, 05 Dec 2014 00:04:23 +0100,
>Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>
>> Tomas Cech <sleep_walker <at> suse.cz> skribis:
>>
>> > I tried to install Guix as alternative OS to my Gentoo and openSUSE
>> > installations to give a try. I tried unsupported scenario -
>> > installation on LVM volume and separate /boot partition until I was
>> > told it is unsupported. Separate boot wasn't hard as I had to just
>> > copy generated files so they are loaded.
>>
>> OK, but there’s still an open bug on that topic. :-)
>> http://bugs.gnu.org/19220
>
>Good, I'll give a try again.
>
>> > 1] if you set device to partition (and not to disk) in your grub-configuration like this:
>> >
>> > (bootloader (grub-configuration
>> > (device "/dev/sda4")))
>>
>> Why would you want to use a partition and not a disk? I didn’t know
>> this was even possible.
>
>Because this way I can separate Grub managed by Guix and Grub from my
>Gentoo. As I'm playing with that on my notebook I need for work, this
>way can reduce risks.
>
>I'm not sure how Guix installer can manipulate with grub.cfg and I'd
>like to always have some working system...
>
>>
>> > `guix system init' will fail on grub installation. By default Grub
>> > tries to fit in the beginning of partition and fails if it can't fit
>> > in. I asked about this behaviour on Grub mailing list and it seems
>> > that there are two options:
>> >
>> > a] add `--force' to command line and use block list for keeping information about position of Grub's core.img
>> > b] use filesystem which allows embedding - BtrFS or ZFS
>> >
>> > I verified both options (a] and then b] with BtrFS) and it no longer fails.
>> >
>> > But,
>> > ad a] - I don't feel safe passing `--force' to grub-install every
>> > time. So if installation fails on this point and you'd like to use
>> > your FS anyway, you can pass `--no-grub' to `guix system init' and
>> > then rung grub-install manually.
>> >
>> > ad b] - I don't feel safe using still experimental BtrFS.
>>
>> OK. I think the conclusion for Guix is to leave the defaults unchanged.
>> Perhaps we could add a ‘force?’ field to the ‘grub-configuration’ data
>> type to allow those who know what they doing to get the effect of
>> ‘--force’. WDYT?
After giving some more thoughts and after more experience with the process I
do agree that exposing `--force' parameter into grub-configuration is good idea.
I'm filing bug for that.
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