Hi Florian, Thank you for your kind answer!
On Saturday, May 21, 2022, 04:50:20 PM GMT+2, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <[email protected]> wrote: >On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 04:14:52PM +0000, Paul Iannetta via wrote: >> I seem unable to make GRUB work and would like to know whether it is >> possible to generate an image which would use extlinux/syslinux >> instead. > >When creating an iso9660 image, Guix always uses grub-mkrescue to build the image. Yes, I was told the same when I asked in irc. I think that should be underlined in the manual because it is very confusing. I was really wondering what I was doing wrong. In fact, I should have read the code directly. >> […] >> The last solution would be to overwrite my current distribution by >> guix and replace the init system by sheperd. > >Yes, just `guix system reconfigure` from an existing distro. I've been able to install archlinux which uses syslinux as its bootloader, I plan to keep the base install of archlinux in a first time and guix for the rest, and when I am be a bit more familiar with guix and can confidently generate a syslinux based bootloader configuration I'll use `guix system reconfigure` as you suggested. I've tried other grub based live-usbs, and all fail at the same point whatever the setup of GRUB so I think this is a GRUB bug (probably introduced fairly recently because my previous bootloader was GRUB and it worked perfectly). Regards, Paul
