Hey, Please see this investigation. <https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/issues/6053>
You can use lvm luks on 1.4.0 as long as you make sure to use the given setup. Or you can use a custom bootloader that does add insmod lvm. That is also in the channel I shared in that issue Rutherther On January 31, 2026 11:49:06 PM GMT+01:00, Bilinmek Istemiyor <[email protected]> wrote: >Hello, > >I am a newbie in guix though I have been trying to migrate guix about year >from arch. I have previously tried to install guix several times to my >laptop with luks + lvm configuration without success. > >In IRC channel, I was told that luks + lvm is not possible due to a bug in >1.4.0 release. In a reddit guix subedit, I was told that luks + lvm is >not possible in guix design for root partition. However, even graphical >installer is perfectly installing luks + filesystem without problem at root >just leaving /boot/efi directory as not encrypted. So I can not >understand why luks + lvm is not possible. Guix documentation does not >report any anything towards LVM. > >If I can achieve this, I will migrate to guix totally for all my machines, >several minipc, several labtops, a couple desktops, including my >server/nas. Currently they are running arc/manjaro. Luks + lvm is >important to me. It is my usual setup. > >It seems lvm is a second class citizen in graphical installer. There is >no option of using it. lvm commands are not even available at root and >need to be installed. > >So manual install is my only option. > >I appreciate if someone can authoritatively state whether luks + lvm setup >is possible. I appreciate more if someone provide simple working a >config.scm file for a single disk as a template. > >Any insight and help much appreciated.
