GNU bug report logs - #44353
guix system disk-image -t raw fails with grub-efi-bootloader

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Message #55 received at 44353 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 44353 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357 <at> gmail.com>,
 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#44353: [PATCH version-1.2.0 v2 3/3] doc: Detail which
 bootloader get used with disk-image or vm-image.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:16:56 +0100

Hi,

Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org> skribis:

>> +@example
>> +image=$(guix system disk-image --image-type=qcow2 \
>> +             gnu/system/examples/lightweight-desktop.tmpl)
>> +cp $image /tmp/my-image.qcow2
>> +chmod +rw /tmp/my-image.qcow2
>> +qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -hda /tmp/my-image.qcow2 -m 1000
>> +                   -bios $(guix build ovmf)/share/firmware/ovmf_x64.bin
>> +@end example
>
> This looks good! Note that I plan to remove the "vm-image" command and
> rename "disk-image" command to "image" once the 1.2.0 is out.

However note that the manual should not be change on ‘version-1.2.0’ at
this point, “the strings are frozen”, they say.

Ludo’.

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