Thanks Mathieu! We've discussed further on IRC, but summarising below for the list.
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > Oh, too bad. You could maybe contact Binary Lane support to find out > why? Have you tried to boot your qcow2 image on your machine with QEMU? > The command line would look like the one presented here: > https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Installing-Guix-in-a-VM.html. > >> I've also tried efi-raw which boots and runs smoothly, but fails to >> resize later on my hosting service. (Resize is required because >> otherwise I literally have to generate and upload a 20GB image.) I >> suspect (but don't know for sure) that this is related to the additional >> 40M EFI partition created in the image before the root EXT4 partition. >> The images provided by my hosting service only have a single EXT4 >> partition eg. Debian 10. >> >> Do you know if it's possible to get `guix system image` to skip the EFI >> partition when creating an efi-raw image? > > No it is not possible currently, due to how Grub is installed on Guix > System images. However, you should be able to resize your partition > manually using fdisk and resize2fs, see below :). I contacted Binary Lane's support and they advised that while they didn't support QCOW2, I could resolve the resizing issue by using their "BYO OS" configuration, rather than their built-in image configurations like "Debian". Doing so disables their auto-magic storage resizing feature which seems to choke on the multi-partition image. I can live with uploading a 1.5GB raw image and then resizing the partition. :) Noting that you also have a working demo of a single partition image type, that we may see in the near future. Thanks very much for your help! Regards, Ben
