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guix system init --no-grub doesn't work

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
Cc: 21068-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 21224-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21224: guix system init --no-grub doesn't work
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 23:54:23 +0100

Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> skribis:

> I ran into the same problem while porting GuixSD to MIPS, before I had
> GRUB working.
>
> The problem here is that the method for copying the necessary store
> items to the target directory is to copy grub.cfg and its transitive
> closure, using (maybe-copy grub.cfg).
>
> However, if --no-grub is specified, then grub.cfg is not built.
>
> The preliminary approach I used successfully was to build and install
> grub.cfg even if --no-grub is specified, although 'grub-install' is not
> run in that case.  Here's the patch I used:
>
> diff --git a/guix/scripts/system.scm b/guix/scripts/system.scm
> index 45f5982..6ec1f29 100644
> --- a/guix/scripts/system.scm
> +++ b/guix/scripts/system.scm
> @@ -331,8 +331,10 @@ boot directly to the kernel or to the bootloader."
>                                               (if (eq? 'init action)
>                                                   '()
>                                                   (previous-grub-entries))))
> -       (drvs   -> (if (and grub? (memq action '(init reconfigure)))
> -                      (list sys grub grub.cfg)
> +       (drvs   -> (if (memq action '(init reconfigure))
> +                      (if grub?
> +                          (list sys grub.cfg grub)
> +                          (list sys grub.cfg))
>                        (list sys)))
>         (%         (maybe-build drvs #:dry-run? dry-run?
>                                 #:use-substitutes? use-substitutes?)))

Applied in a704361, thanks!

Ludo’.

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