bug#48343: Cannot boot after installation

[Sergey Petrov]

Hm, I've added these lines to the etc/config.scm, tried to boot again 
and it doesn't seem to change anything...

On 5/11/21 8:48 PM, Bone Baboon wrote:
> Sergey Petrov writes:
>
> > Hi! I've installed ordinary guix system following graphical installer,
> > but can't boot it, here what I got after installation complete:
> >
> > GC Warning: pthread_getattr_pp or pthread_attr_getstack failed for
> > main thread GC Warning:
> > Couldn't read /proc/stat
> > Welcome, this is GMU's early boot Guile.
> > Use '--repl' for an initrd REPL.
> >
> > loading kernel modules...
> > /dev/nvme0n1p8: clean,
> > 134898/5169152 files, 1320485/20649216 blocks
> > loading '/gnu/store/519yr5adx95d26s3nu65mjOcc9731630-system/boot...
> > making '/gnu/store/519yr5adx95d26s3nu65mj0cc9731630-system' the
> > current system...
> > setting up setuid programs in '/run/setuid-programs'...
> > populating /etc from /gnu/store/d6k3c7p2s6ji0ix2g3lafx4iwOd43a98-etc...
> > error in finalization thread: Success
> > [   3.049660] udevd[272]: no sender credentials received, message ignored
> > [   3.098019] sp5100-tco sp5100-tco: Watchdog hardware is disabled
> > [   3.104103] Error: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting...
> > [   3.180575] kvm: disabled by bios
> >
> > At this point computer hangs infinitely, and if I enable CPU
> > virtualization in BIOS it starts to hang at line "[   3.104103] Error:
> > Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting..."
> I ran into a similar issue with a computer I installed Guix on.  It
> would not complete the boot up process.  I am not sure if I was
> experiencing the same issue you are as I did not submit it to a Guix
> mailing list.  I got help solving it on #guix.  What worked for me was
> to add the Linux kernel argument `nomodeset` to my system configuration.
> In the operating system declaration of the system configuration I added:
>
> ```
>    (kernel-arguments
>     (append
>      (list "nomodeset")
>      %default-kernel-arguments))
> ```