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