Re: Problems with grub2

[Alex Kost]

Fabian Boucsein (2015-07-29 00:07 +0300) wrote:

> Hello Guix hackers,

Hello!

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> First i tried it with (locale "de_DE.UTF-8") but guix told me that
> de_DE is not available. This is of course changeable after
> installation but will it be added to the guix installation later?

I think "de_DE.utf8" should work.

> When i try the installation as mentioned above everything is fine
> until the installation of grub. Grub tells me that there are multiple
> labels assigned to the device. When i look into /dev/disk/by-label i
> find one label for a partition. Is there a way to get rid of this
> disk labels? I tried it with parted but that brought no help. In the
> configuration i am telling that i want to use device names. Why is
> grub2 using labels anyway??? I am not sure what is the source of the
> problem. With Nix i have the same issue when i try to install grub2.
> Grub1 is working fine. Will Grub1 be added to guix? I have not found
> a Nix configuration which tells nix to use devices instead of labels.

Apparently the source of the problem is not Nix or Guix.  IIUC the error
happens during "grub-install" call, so you have to figure it out why
grub doesn't want to be installed.  You may look at the output of
"blkid" to see if there are the same labels (I don't know why grub
wouldn't like them).

Before experimenting with grub, read its info manual: (info "(grub)
Invoking grub-install").  If you are brave enough, check if the
following command also fails:

grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sdb

("/mnt/boot" is where "grub" directory will be put)

As for grub1, since it is a free software, I think it may be added to
Guix if someone will decide to make a package for it (but you may be the
only person who want it :-)).

-- 
Alex