Tomáš Čech <[email protected]> skribis: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 08:58:07AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>Tomáš Čech <[email protected]> skribis:
[...] >>> Shouldn't `grub' be in `%base-packages'? >> >>It could be there; OTOH, we don’t want to encourage users to bypass >>‘reconfigure’. WDYT? > > Aha! Now it makes sense! > > Yes, you're right, but there is also chance that after initialization of > GuixSD and reboot you will have no way back to original distribution. As I wrote before, once you’ve booted into GuixSD, chances are that the original distro on that partition is in a bad state because GuixSD has fiddle with /etc and other global directories. > After my installation I got into state where Guix couldn't access network so > `guix system reconfigure' was not possible and my graphic card needs some > special care during boot to make KMS work (which I was hardly googling on > tablet to fix it). Could you explain the KMS issue in a separate thread? > We could just add note in documentation that one can add grub as system > package as safety belt and remove it when confirmed it works. OTOH this may > encourage users to bypass reconfigure even more. It’s enough to modify grub.cfg. GRUB itself is not needed. But anyway, the take-home message is that if you run ‘guix system init’ on your current root, then you can assume the former distro to no longer be bootable. Thanks, Ludo’.
