Hi Ricardo,

What is the status of this old bug

    https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/32944

?

On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 at 15:50, Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> 
wrote:
> Currently, the kernel and the initrd are stored somewhere in /gnu/store
> and the GRUB configuration is generated to point to these things
> directly.  This means that the disk containing /gnu/store must be
> readable in GRUB.  This is not always the case.
>
> Consider the case where /gnu/store should be hosted on an external
> storage array connected redundantly via HBAs.  The disks might not be
> visible in GRUB and only become available once Linux has booted.
>
> This could be made to work by adding an option to “guix system
> reconfigure” to copy all things that are needed for starting Linux
> (e.g. the kernel, the initrd, …), and then mount /gnu/store from the
> specified location once Linux is up.

It contains this only unique message from 2018.

Cheers,
simon

PS: Hum, maybe Ricardo is AFK these days… :-D



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