Re: Guix bios installation: Grub error: unknown filesystem

[Efraim Flashner]

On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 10:33:31AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> adanskana@gmail.com skribis:
> 
> > I might try doing this. It's a little scary though, updating the 
> > bootloader... What do you think would be the best way to test it? Should I 
> > create a VM and test through that? Or is there a way I can invoke the 
> > 'installation tests' that have been failing locally?
> 
> Apparently the latest version needs a tiny patch mentioned here:
> 
>   https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter08/grub.html
> 
> As for testing, the best option is to run a couple of installation
> tests:
> 
>   make check-system TESTS="installed-os encrypted-root-os"
> 
> (See
> <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Running-the-Test-Suite.html>.)

I've also had some luck running similar tests with this command:
./pre-inst-env guix build --no-grafts -e \
   '(@@ (gnu tests install) %test-gui-uefi-installed-os)'

> Those installation tests are expensive in terms of CPU and disk space;
> consider going for a walk while they’re running.  :-)

Indeed. It first needs to rebuild guix with all your commits on top.

> Thanks for looking into this!
> 
> Ludo’.
> 

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