Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis: > swedebugia <swedebu...@riseup.net> writes: > >> Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skrev: (11 januari 2019 23:32:12 CET)
[...] >>>Apparently GRUB has a feature that records a "fallback" system to boot >>>if booting fails. >>> >>>Maybe when reconfiguring, Guix could set the current system as the >>>fallback so that it would always boot. >>> >>>If we did that, we'd want to warn the user somehow... not sure how to >>>achieve that. >>> >>>Discussion of this feature at NixOS: >>> >>>https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/26332 >> >> I don't think automatic fallback is a good idea because it unnecessarily >> complicates a now well working simple part of the OS. >> KISS is a nice principle. > > I think exposing this GRUB feature would be good, even if not enabled by > default. It does not seem very complicated and can be very useful for > some users. I agree. > Unfortunately, it doesn’t help us when GRUB itself is broken with an > upgrade, which I think is what was suggested earlier. We’ll have to assume (and ensure!) this doesn’t happen… Ludo’.
