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Help with a basic GuixSD installation
From: |
Evan Rowley |
Subject: |
Help with a basic GuixSD installation |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:18:01 -0400 |
Hello,
I have not been successful attempting to install GuixSD. I am not well
versed in partitioning, GRUB, and Guix itself. Could someone help me
with the basics necessary to complete this installation? Also, does
anyone have advice on what to do when GuixSD is booting, has issues,
and then drops into a scheme@(guile-user)> prompt? I'm at a loss.
I've used this command to produce a partition table file:
---
parted -ms /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593 print
---
Here is the layout, given by the output of the parted command shown above:
----
BYT;
/dev/sdg:2000GB:scsi:512:4096:gpt:ATA WDC WD20EURS-63S:;
1:1049kB:11.5MB:10.5MB:::bios_grub;
2:11.5MB:53.7GB:53.7GB:linux-swap(v1)::;
3:53.7GB:2000GB:1947GB:ext4::;
----
First this shows a 10 MB BIOS GRUB partition, which unless I'm
mistaken, is the preferred way to setup GRUB on a GPT disk on a system
that's Legacy-BIOS-Only / non-(U)EFI. Second there is a 50 GB swap
partition. It's labelled "swap". Yes, I know that seems like a lot,
but this machine I'm installing on is a server capable of housing lots
of RAM. I don't imagine it would be practical sifting through 50GB of
core dump to fix a bug, but the entire disk is 1.8 TB, so why not?
Third / finally is the ext4 root partition. It's labelled "root" and
takes up the rest of the 1.8 TB disk.
This machine itself houses 8 disks. I felt like using /dev/disk/by-id/
made more sense. Here is my config.scm that I ran guix system init
with:
----
(use-modules (gnu))
(use-service-modules networking ssh)
(use-package-modules admin)
(operating-system
(host-name "experiment0")
(timezone "America/New_York")
(locale "en_US.UTF-8")Also
;; Assuming /dev/sdX is the target hard disk, and "root" is
;; the label of the target root file system.
(bootloader (grub-configuration (device
"/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593")))
(file-systems (cons (file-system
(device
"/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593-part3")
(title "root")
(mount-point "/")
(type "ext4"))
%base-file-systems))
(swap-devices
'("/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593-part2"))
(users (list (user-account
(name "ejr")
(comment "Evan Johannes Rowley")
(group "users")
(supplementary-groups '("wheel"))
(home-directory "/home/ejr"))))
(packages (cons tcpdump %base-packages))
(services (cons* (dhcp-client-service)
(lsh-service #:port-number 22)
%base-services)))
---
Also in case it's relevant here, this is the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file:
---
function load_video {
insmod vbe
insmod vga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
}
# Set 'root' to the partition that contains /gnu/store.
search --file --set
/gnu/store/9qa0c1ax5zl20cn91bq5ng3l7s514dfb-grub-2.00/share/grub/unicode.pf2
if loadfont
/gnu/store/9qa0c1ax5zl20cn91bq5ng3l7s514dfb-grub-2.00/share/grub/unicode.pf2;
then
set gfxmode=640x480
load_video
insmod gfxterm
terminal_output gfxterm
fi
insmod png
if background_image
/gnu/store/hiwhqz749xgdgvg5cfg4i17mczp1n48l-grub-image.resized.png;
then
set color_normal=light-gray/black
set color_highlight=yellow/black
else
set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
fi
set default=0
set timeout=5
menuentry "GNU with Linux-Libre 4.0.2 (alpha)" {
# Set 'root' to the partition that contains the kernel.
search --file --set
/gnu/store/j9xlnmb2xvw22pb1fyjw3am6lhljn4pc-linux-libre-4.0.2/bzImage
linux /gnu/store/j9xlnmb2xvw22pb1fyjw3am6lhljn4pc-linux-libre-4.0.2/bzImage
--root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593-part3
--system=/gnu/store/xp866fxdv1lyz9yip88v4rk6anqsp3lr-system
--load=/gnu/store/xp866fxdv1lyz9yip88v4rk6anqsp3lr-system/boot
initrd /gnu/store/xp866fxdv1lyz9yip88v4rk6anqsp3lr-system/initrd
}
submenu "GNU system, old configurations..." {
menuentry "GNU with Linux-Libre 4.0.2 (alpha) (#1, 2015-05-14 01:11)" {
# Set 'root' to the partition that contains the kernel.
search --file --set
/gnu/store/j9xlnmb2xvw22pb1fyjw3am6lhljn4pc-linux-libre-4.0.2/bzImage
linux /gnu/store/j9xlnmb2xvw22pb1fyjw3am6lhljn4pc-linux-libre-4.0.2/bzImage
--root=gnu-disk-image --system=/var/guix/profiles/system-1-link
--load=/var/guix/profiles/system-1-link/boot
initrd /var/guix/profiles/system-1-link/initrd
}
}
---
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I'm the same user who started the "Show example for GuixSD config.scm"
thread in address@hidden - I read in the System Installation guide
in the GuixSD manual that the address@hidden list was preferred.
--
- EJR
- Help with a basic GuixSD installation,
Evan Rowley <=