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Re : Librem Mini with pureboot/head don't boot GuixSD


From: Roland Everaert
Subject: Re : Librem Mini with pureboot/head don't boot GuixSD
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 11:23:17 +0000

Hello Tobias,

I have a good news and a bad news.

The good news, I manage to boot the system.

The bad news, I have to boot the root file system, hence, /. This imply that I 
have either to re-sign the whole disk at every boot or boot every time in 
unsafe mode.

To answer your question, I have performed a very basic installation, nothing is 
encrypted and there is only 3 partitions, /boot, the swap and the root 
filesystem.

The consequence is that booting is slow because HEAD needs to browse the whole 
file system to find the kernel. Moreover, because there is always a file 
changing on the disk, be it in /var/log or /home, for example, HEAD complains 
at every boot that some files have changed.

IMHO, the HEAD and GuixSD developers need to come together with a solution that 
allow to boot from /boot, using HEAD, even with a Guix system.

I can apply your suggested workaround, but I will need some help to understand 
how to adapt /etc/config.scm to copy the kernel to /boot, if it is possible, 
from the configuration file.

Roland Everaert
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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
Le jeudi 12 août 2021 à 12:59, Roland Everaert <r.everaert@protonmail.com> a 
écrit :

> Hello,
>
> I have installed GuixSD on a Librem Mini, from Purism. After rebooting, the 
> system stubbornly stay on the pre-boot screen with the last line printed 
> being ‘Found kexec boot params’.
>
> I have tried re-signing the content of /boot with my librem key, generating 
> new TOTP/HOTP secrets and other thing from the pureboot GUI, but still, no 
> boot to the new OS. does someone managed to run Guix with pureboot/head?
>
> Regards,
>
> Roland Everaert
> ---
> Use the F.O.S.S., Luke
>
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