On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:12:58AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There were some hurdles I had to get over so sharing my experiences
> here.
>
> The XPS ships with Ubuntu 14.04, but uses UEFI boot and GPT disk.
> In the bios I selected "legacy" boot and used gdisk (from gptfdisk,
> see patch below) to change it to MBR.
>
> The SSD uses the NVMe protocol, which means I needed to include that
> module in the initial ramdisk (patch below). Grub 2.0 cannot handle
> NVMe devices and needs a patch from 2014. I decided to use
> grub-2.02~beta3 (patch below...using a custom url because guix does
> not like the ~).
>
> I expect we want to include probably patches #1 and #2, we may want
> to cherry pick the patch...not sure.
>
> Greetings,
> Jan
>
> +(define-public gptfdisk
[...]
> + ;; (patches
> + ;; (search-patches "gdisk.patch"))
Leftover?
> + ("util-linux" ,util-linux)))
What part of util-linux is used? Since it's a grab-bag of miscellaneous
utilities, it's nice to say in a comment what part is used. Or, if it's
just one component, to use that component as the name. For examples, see
btrfs-progs or ntfs-3g.
> + (replace 'install
Can you leave a comment saying "No 'install' target", if that's
accurate? Or explain why we replace the install phase.
> * gnu/system/linux-initrd.scm (base-initrd): Add nvme to linux-modules.
Sounds like a good addition.
> * gnu/packages/grub.scm (grub): Change version no 2.02.beta3, use
> custom url symlinked to 2.02~beta3.
We should fix the problem that requires this workaround :)
