Re: Who has had success installing a Guix system on arm?

[Julien Lepiller]

I managed to install the guix system on an armv7 board, the cubietruck, more 
than a year ago. That was probably guix 0.16, or 1.0.1, I can't remember.

Maybe this can help a bit: 
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2019/guix-on-an-arm-board/

I installed guix, the package manager, on top of an existing distro and managed 
to install from there. One thing you should be careful of when installing on 
top of the running system, is that the store database is going to be out of 
sync, which will very quickly create issues (glibc suddenly disappearing or 
things like that…). Because of that, I ended up installing uboot on flash 
memory, and the system on an external ssd.

Once you manage to install it though, it works perfectly fine, though you don't 
get substitutes as often as on x86_64, so you'll have to be patient.

Here's my conf: 
https://framagit.org/tyreunom/system-configuration/-/blob/master/systems/ene.scm

Le 4 novembre 2020 11:44:24 GMT-05:00, Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com> a 
écrit :
>For almost a year I've been trying to build a Guix system for arm, but
>I 
>haven't had any success, to the point where I've become a bit 
>frustrated. Has anyone in this mailing list successfully used the Guix 
>system on an armhf or aarch64 computer? If so would you mind sharing 
>details, such as:
>
>-> Which board did you get working with guix system (banana pi m2u, 
>novena, beaglebone black, pine64-plus, etc.)?
>-> Did you build natively or cross-build from a different system?
>-> What version of guix did you use? (what did guix describe say?)
>-> If the board you got working can boot from an internal (emmc) or 
>external (microsd) drive, which one did you get working?
>-> Would you mind sharing the operating-system definition that was 
>successful?
>
>Thanks,
>-Jesse