Re: repot: problems building guixsd in Asia

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Dika Setya Prayogi <address@hidden> writes:

> building guixsd in Asia with guix system init become very slow to
> download package. to many timeout result in http error, switching with
> --no-subtitutes goes the same but looks like it can fix the http error
> with the cost of double download the packages. finally all packages
> has been build but sadly grub-install returned an error that made me
> init with --no-grub option.
>
>  /usr/sbin/grub-bios-setup: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't
> support embedding.
>  /usr/sbin/grub-bios-setup: warning: Embedding is not possible.  GRUB
> can only be    installed in this setup by using blocklists.  However,
> blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
>  /usr/sbin/grub-bios-setup: error: will not proceed with blocklists.
This happened when try to install Grub into a partition instead of
a device.  So instead of ’/dev/sdzX’, ’/dev/sdz’ should be used as the
device field of grub-configuration.