Re: Guix bios installation: Grub error: unknown filesystem
Hi Ada, I very much appreciate your detailed response. For a moment I thought my email hadn't made it to this list, both because it didn't show up, and the lack of acknowledgment. After a day or so, I filed a bug report instead [1] - which produced the expected acknowledgement... Still learning. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=866603 > Basically, there is a compatibility issue regarding the ext4 filesystem features that GRUB 2.06 supports and the features that `e2fsprogs@1.47.0` enables by default when creating your ext4 filesystem. So this broke on 26th of March, with commit ce78f9cb668971954add5473c8549ebb00424f66. > To fix this, you will need to make sure you create your ext4 filesystem with the following features: `mkfs.ext4 /dev/you-partition-here -O has_journal,ext_attr,resize_inode,dir_index,filetype,needs_recovery,extent,flex_bg,sparse_super,large_file,huge_file,uninit_bg,dir_nlink,extra_isize` I didn't realize mkfs.ext4 would accept these directly, thank you. Certainly hope the latest version of GRUB will be merged asap, so it doesn't affect more users. Not a great experience when the initial install requires an undocumented workaround - but then again, it does (still) work on the guix ISO from the homepage. Have a great day! Best, Franz
Guix bios installation: Grub error: unknown filesystem
I'm having trouble installing guix in qemu, using a "fresh" guix ISO. ``` building /gnu/store/byjlc85abyjc3fjj9z982677skmda7ib-module-import-compiled.drv... building /gnu/store/psw8xn9qpsjjnrqmjrfv0v3jj9fphq5m-module-import-compiled.drv... building /gnu/store/a1zcrrcdwhb4wb2g4r0ph8mqclq7f5xn-install-bootloader.scm.drv... guix system: error: '/gnu/store/li1ic17hz460vp1sg0cx2dwgw8q7i8pj-grub-2.06/sbin/grub-install --no-floppy --target=i386-pc --boot-directory /mnt/boot /dev/sda' exited with status 1; output follows: Installing for i386-pc platform. /gnu/store/li1ic17hz460vp1sg0cx2dwgw8q7i8pj-grub-2.06/sbin/grub-install: error: unknown filesystem. ``` Here's what I've tried so far: 1. The ISO from 2022 https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.4.0.x86_64-linux.iso: Success 2. Generated a new ISO today: Failure These are the channels, on the booted ISO: ``` guix describe guix 65e8472 repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git branch: master commit: 65e8472a4b6fc6f66871ba0dad518b7d4c63595e ``` Steps I used to install (1) and (2): ``` parted -s /dev/sda -- mklabel msdos mkpart primary ext4 1MiB 100% parted /dev/sda set 1 boot on mkfs.ext4 -L my-root /dev/sda1 mount LABEL=my-root /mnt cp /etc/configuration/lightweight-desktop.scm /mnt/etc/config.scm # adjust disk, bootloader herd start cow-store /mnt guix system init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt ``` Findings: I didn't really dig too deeply yet; Only noticed that this command produces a different result, depending on whether the install succeeds, or not `grub-probe --target=fs --device /dev/sda` - Success: `ext2` - Failure: `grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem.` I also tried using GPT instead of MBR, but it makes no difference.
