Re: GRUB fallback mechanism [was Re: Brain storming cool Guix features]

2019-01-14 Thread L p R n d n
Hello, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> swedebugia writes: >> >>> Leo Famulari 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

Re: GRUB fallback mechanism [was Re: Brain storming cool Guix features]

2019-01-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > swedebugia writes: > >> Leo Famulari 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 th

Re: GRUB fallback mechanism [was Re: Brain storming cool Guix features]

2019-01-12 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
swedebugia writes: > Leo Famulari skrev: (11 januari 2019 23:32:12 CET) >>On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 05:48:39PM +0100, L p R n d n wrote: >>> - Currently, I think the only way for a GuixSD installation to break >>is >>> if something goes wrong with the bootloader. Might be nice to have >>a >>>

Re: GRUB fallback mechanism [was Re: Brain storming cool Guix features]

2019-01-12 Thread swedebugia
Leo Famulari skrev: (11 januari 2019 23:32:12 CET) >On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 05:48:39PM +0100, L p R n d n wrote: >> - Currently, I think the only way for a GuixSD installation to break >is >> if something goes wrong with the bootloader. Might be nice to have >a >> tool (in the install image I

GRUB fallback mechanism [was Re: Brain storming cool Guix features]

2019-01-11 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 05:48:39PM +0100, L p R n d n wrote: > - Currently, I think the only way for a GuixSD installation to break is > if something goes wrong with the bootloader. Might be nice to have a > tool (in the install image I suppose) to recover the bootloader. > Maybe 'guix system