Hi Emmanuel, You might want to look into adding missing modules to the initramfs (https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Initial-RAM-Disk.html). I had to do this so I could boot a system with Linux MD RAID.
Best regards, Raffael > Emmanuel Beffara <m...@beffara.org> hat am 02.03.2023 11:25 CET geschrieben: > > > Hello, > > I am currently trying to install Guix System on my laptop and I am facing an > issue with the bootloader configuration. > > I use full-disk encryption with a single encrypted partition, split into > several logical volumes using LVM, plus an extra non-encrypted partition for > EFI boot material: > > nvme0n1 259:0 0 953,9G 0 disk > ├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 953,4G 0 part > │ └─manivelle 254:0 0 953,4G 0 crypt > │ ├─storage-swap 254:1 0 32G 0 lvm [SWAP] > │ │ [...] > │ └─storage-guix 254:5 0 64G 0 lvm / > └─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 487M 0 part /boot > > I attach the system configuration, which I derived from the desktop template. > > Everything installed fine EXCEPT that Grub fails to load its LVM volume, hence > the root partition is not found. Indeed, the produced grub.cfg has no mention > of lvm anywhere. If I adjust it by inserting "insmod lvm" somewhere, either at > the start or in a menuentry, or if I do that by hand in the Grub shell, then > the system starts and works fine. > > Did I miss something in the configuration ? > > > As a related point, this setup requires entering the decryption password > twice: once so that Grub can load the kernel from the store, and once so that > the kernel can open the volume itself. I understand the situation is known, > but it could be avoided, for instance, by copying the kernel and initrd > somewhere in the EFI partition so that they could be loaded directly. Besides, > for some reason, Grub is extremely slow at opening the partition: it takes > around 30 seconds to start after I correctly enter the password, whereas the > kernel boots in just a few seconds after I enter the password for it. > > Any thoughts on this ? > > -- > Emmanuel
