bug#36783: Guix graphical installation failure on all drives with size > 1 TiB

2020-04-13 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello, > Your fix seems ok for me, thank you! I don't get why you negative values > though. I'll try to find a big hard drive to understand this before > pushing this patch. I still don't have a big enough hard drive to test it, but I applied your patch anyway. If someone with hard drive > 1 Ti

bug#36783: Guix graphical installation failure on all drives with size > 1 TiB

2019-07-24 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello Danny, > However, even after that, disk-print, if used, prints nonsensical (negative) > values for "free" (but installation succeeds). > > That bug prevents graphical installation on any drive bigger than 1 TiB. > Let's make a bugfix Guix release shortly. Your fix seems ok for me, thank y

bug#36783: Guix graphical installation failure on all drives with size > 1 TiB

2019-07-24 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, using the Guix graphical installation method, one cannot install Guix on a drive with more than 1 TiB. (symptom: "null pointer dereference" in mkpart) The reason is a bug in guile-parted. An example is to use the "separate /home" option with a 2 TiB disk. The fix that lets me install is: