* On 2014 21 Sep 13:56 -0500, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > This is weird, there’s no reason why it would be slower than whatever > else you did before. Are you running QEMU with ‘-enable-kvm’?
Yes. The only difference that I could really see is that I chose to create my image in the qcow2 format rather than raw. Here is what I used to do the installation: qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -m 512 -hdb Guix.qcow2 -usb ~/tmp/gnu-usb-install-0.7.i686 This runs quickly enough, although a far cry from a native installation. > This device name is passed directly to ‘grub-install’. If that command > supports UUIDs, that would work. I suspect it really needs a /dev name, > though (info "(grub) Invoking grub-install"): > > grub-install INSTALL_DEVICE > > The device name INSTALL_DEVICE is an OS device name or a GRUB device > name. Looking in the Grub info documentation on my Debian system confirms the above and is silent on the issue of UUID. > Now, this device name just needs to be correct at the time GRUB is > installed; it doesn’t matter afterwards. Thanks very much for that clue. I ran the installation with grub set to install to /dev/sdb and it happily booted into the hard disk image. Now my task is to read the manual and get familiar with Guix. Thanks! - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us
