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bug#48172: support split /boot partition
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Vagrant Cascadian |
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bug#48172: support split /boot partition |
Date: |
Sat, 22 May 2021 14:02:14 -0700 |
On 2021-05-02, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> Unfortunately, guix doesn't currently support booting off of a separate
> /boot partition, since the kernel and initrd are in /gnu/store; your
> bootloader needs to be able to mount the partition that /gnu/store is
> located on.
>
> The workaround would be to manually copy all files mentioned in grub.cfg
> (kernel, initrd, possibly others) into a partition somewhere on boot
> media, and tweak the grub.cfg appropriately...
>
>
> There are several cases where this sort of thing would be desireable:
>
> * The above scenario; the system does not expose an NVMe drive from EFI
> or BIOS.
>
> * Using u-boot and you want root on lvm, raid, encryption, etc. which
> u-boot does not support
* Using luks1 format for /boot and luks2 format for / (unless grub2
learns how to read luks2 already/soon)
live well,
vagrant
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