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Re: Who has had success installing a Guix system on arm?


From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Subject: Re: Who has had success installing a Guix system on arm?
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 16:12:38 +0100

Jesse,

Jesse Gibbons 写道:
Has anyone in this mailing list successfully used the Guix system on an armhf or aarch64 computer? If so would you mind sharing details, such as:

-> Which board did you get working with guix system (banana pi m2u,
   novena, beaglebone black, pine64-plus, etc.)?

I'm not much of an ARM person but did have success installing Guix System onto two Overdrives 1000 currently part of the Berlin build farm. They aren't ‘boards’ but proper computers using UEFI, so GRUB just works.

-> Did you build natively or cross-build from a different system?

Both machines came with OpenSUSE installed, and were briefly borged into Guix Systems simply by installing Guix (using the official installer script) and running ‘guix system init /’.

That worked but didn't last long. I booted an aarch64 Fedora installer image, installed Guix into the live environment using the same installer script, wiped & repartitioned the drives, wrote a basic system configuration and ran ‘guix system init /mnt’. That's the system still running today.

It must have been easy or it would have been more memorable.  :-)

I never (cross-)built anything custom.

-> What version of guix did you use? (what did guix describe say?)

I don't remember.  Whatever was master soon before Jul 24 2019.

-> If the board you got working can boot from an internal (emmc) or
   external (microsd) drive, which one did you get working?

These machines have a 1TB 3.5" SATA drive.

-> Would you mind sharing the operating-system definition that was
   successful?

It's probably not useful for ‘boards’, but sure.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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