Re: On the road to the next release: testing the installer

[Tanguy LE CARROUR]

Hi Romain,


Quoting Romain (2024-02-10 13:35:14)
> On February 10, 2024 11:35:56 AM GMT+01:00, Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> 
> wrote:
> >Tanguy LE CARROUR <tanguy@bioneland.org> writes:
> >
> >> Grub asked me right away my passphrase and… it did not work! 😱
> >> […]
> >
> >We don't try to embed the required keymap in the GRUB image and load it
> >early on.  It shouldn't be too hard, but would require a bit of
> >refactoring.
> 
> I started looking at this issue as I am also using full encryption with Guix 
> system.
> If someone familiar with the grub-bootloader module would give me a few 
> pointers, I'd be happy to work on fixing it. AFAIR, I couldn't figure out how 
> to access to the grub configuration in the code installing the grub image on 
> disk.

Totally out of my comfort zone, I’m afraid! 😅

But it would definitively make sense to fix that as it could scare new
comers away.


-- 
Tanguy