Hi,
On Mon Apr 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM CEST, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> Once the initial panic wears off & as long as your file system isn't actually
> hosed, Guix Systems are actually extremely easy to re{pair,build,deploy}.
> More so than others. I've become rather cavalier about ‘breaking’ my system.
>
>>Can someone think of a clever way to fix it from the "scheme screen of death"
>>or a way to voodoo-cross reinstall without wiping out the data.
>
> Well, I'd do neither.
>
> If you can still luksOpen & fsck & mount the partition(s) from an external
> system…
This worked, but…
> such as the Guix System installer, you can simply ‘guix system init’
> from your existing system configuration, no?
I’ll definitively try the chroot-init next time! Seems like something one needs
to know how to do. I just hope that "next time" won’t be too soon! 😅
Thanks,
--
Tanguy
