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Re: Booting GUIX in single user
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Alexander Asteroth |
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Re: Booting GUIX in single user |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Jul 2019 17:43:19 +0200 |
Hi,
I tried “single” and 3. Now I tried —root and it still booted into gdm.
Alex
> On 24. Jul 2019, at 17:25, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hullo Alexander,
>
> [It's just ‘Guix’, by the way.]
>
> Alexander Asteroth 写道:
>> I tried to boot into non-x11 (level3) or single user mode but unfortunately
>> the option I pass to Grub
>
> Which option did you try? I've happily purged all memory of which obsolete
> System V run-level did which obsolete thing (and Guix probably should, too).
>
>> seems not to be recognized by the linux-libre kernel.
>
> The kernel doesn't play a role here. It's the (early) user space that looks
> at the kernel's command line, and performs certain actions when it sees (a)
> particular magic keyword(s).
>
>> Any hint where I find the correct boot options for a Guix System, so I can
>> repair my system?
>
> I think the only ones are currenly ‘--load’, ‘--root’, and ‘--repl’. The
> latter allows for some very rudimentary debugging and fixing but it's not
> exactly pleasant.
>
> In keeping with Guix's idiosyncratic syntax, one could add ‘--rescue’ and
> corresponding menu entry to only mount the root filesystem and spawn the
> current system's bash shell. What do people think?
>
> Soon, we'll have to add ‘--help’…
>
> Kind regards,
>
> T G-R
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