Luis Souto Graña <luissoutob...@gmail.com> skribis: > Sorry for the delay in replying. Effectively, I was wrong: hydra > substitutes work well, but it issues other error now:
OK. > My new attempt, step by step: [...] > # mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda /dev/sda is the raw disk, so you should first make a partition table on it, using ‘parted’ for instance. After that, you can run, say, ‘mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1’. > # mount /dev/sda /mnt Here it’s /mnt, so... > # mkswap /dev/sdb > # swapon /dev/sdb > # free -m > total used free > Men 2019 115 1904 > swap 10239 0 10239 > # deco start cow-store /mnt/gnuguix ... it should be /mnt as well here, not /mnt/gnuguix. > service cow-store has been started > fuse: bad mount point '/.rw-store': No such file or directory This error could be related, although I don’t quite understand how it can happen. > I changed only: (bootloader (grub-configuration (device "/dev/sda"))) > > #guix system init /mnt/config.scm /mnt > > After 2 hours it issues the following error: > > /gnu/store/...-grub-2.0.0/sbin/grub-bios-setup:warning:File system 'ext2' > doesn't support embedding. > /gnu/store/...-grub-2.0.0/sbin/grub-bios-setup:warning:Embedding is not > possible. GRUB can only be installedin this setup by using blocklists. > However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged. > guix system:error: failed to install GRUB on device '/dev/sda' This is due to the fact that /dev/sda was made a raw partition, whereas it should actually contain the partition table and boot record. HTH, Ludo’.
