Re: boot the Hurd with Guix

2017-12-01 Thread Vincent Legoll
On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Congrats on the achievement :D > > Ludovic Courtès, on ven. 01 déc. 2017 14:17:48 +0100, wrote: >> Also, in GRUB, you currently load ext2fs.static and exec explicitly. > > That's the normal way, yes. exec does the rest (including

Re: boot the Hurd with Guix

2017-12-01 Thread Vincent Legoll
Sorry, the mail was sent too early >> Well, using sparse files can work as well: create the image with >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=file.img bs=1M count=1 seek=1000 > > Or you can use truncate from gnu coreutils: $ truncate -s 1G file.img $ du -sh file.img 0file.img $ ls -lh file.img -rw---

Re: boot the Hurd with Guix

2017-12-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Congrats on the achievement :D Ludovic Courtès, on ven. 01 déc. 2017 14:17:48 +0100, wrote: > Also, in GRUB, you currently load ext2fs.static and exec explicitly. That's the normal way, yes. exec does the rest (including running startup). > BTW, the image you posted is in “raw” format.

invalid password

2017-12-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, On one of our porterboxes, one currently can't log in, not even root: on typing "root", one gets the "Invalid password" message even before getting the password prompt. That reminds me something like a bogus link or something, does somebody remember what could be wrong on the system? Samu

Re: boot the Hurd with Guix

2017-12-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi rennes, ren...@openmailbox.org skribis: > This is the demo generated with Guix: > > https://github.com/methalo/boot-hurd > > The binary files were generated in Debian/Hurd and placed in an 'img' file. > > The command used to generate the binaries is: > > './pre-inst-env guix system init ~/ligh