Cannot boot after installation

Hi! I've installed ordinary guix system following graphical installer,

but can't boot it, here what I got after installation complete:

GC Warning: pthread_getattr_pp or pthread_attr_getstack failed for main

thread GC Warning:

Couldn't read /proc/stat

Welcome, this is GMU's early boot Guile.

Use '--repl' for an initrd REPL.

loading kernel modules...

/dev/nvme0n1p8: clean,

134898/5169152 files, 1320485/20649216 blocks

loading '/gnu/store/519yr5adx95d26s3nu65mjOcc9731630-system/boot...

making '/gnu/store/519yr5adx95d26s3nu65mj0cc9731630-system' the current

system...

setting up setuid programs in '/run/setuid-programs'...

populating /etc from /gnu/store/d6k3c7p2s6ji0ix2g3lafx4iwOd43a98-etc...

error in finalization thread: Success

[   3.049660] udevd[272]: no sender credentials received, message ignored

[   3.098019] sp5100-tco sp5100-tco: Watchdog hardware is disabled

[   3.104103] Error: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting...

[   3.180575] kvm: disabled by bios

At this point computer hangs infinitely, and if I enable CPU

virtualization in BIOS it starts to hang at line "[   3.104103] Error:

Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting..."

Sergey Petrov writes:

I ran into a similar issue with a computer I installed Guix on. It

would not complete the boot up process. I am not sure if I was

experiencing the same issue you are as I did not submit it to a Guix

mailing list. I got help solving it on #guix. What worked for me was

to add the Linux kernel argument `nomodeset` to my system configuration.

In the operating system declaration of the system configuration I added:

```

(kernel-arguments

(append

(list "nomodeset")

%default-kernel-arguments))

```

Hm, I've added these lines to the etc/config.scm, tried to boot again

and it doesn't seem to change anything...

On 5/11/21 8:48 PM, Bone Baboon wrote:

Hi Sergey,

Sergey Petrov <sekk1e@yandex.ru> skribis:

Note that /etc/config.scm doesn’t have any effect in itself. You need

to run ‘guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm’ to deploy the changes

you made.

HTH,

Ludo’.

If setting nomodeset is the answer, there is a trick you can use in GRUB to set it before boot.

Apparently in GRUB, you:

1. Press e

2. Edit the linux ... line to add nomodeset as an option

3. Press ctrl X

I just found the instructions here https://duckduckgo.com/?q=grub+nomode+set

At least give that a go and report back if it works.

Hi Brendan! It works, I can proceed to system now, but terminal only, my

WM (Enlightenment) cannot initialize. I think I can give a try to some

other WMs and check how it goes.

On 5/12/21 10:17 PM, Brendan Tildesley wrote:

Thanks, I've planned to read docs about it right after I can boot to guix :)

On 5/12/21 4:24 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

Looks like you are running into many of the problems I had when I

installed Guix on a computer.

Sergey Petrov writes:

If you were able to manually use nomodeset in Grub then you should be

able to add that snippet for the Linux kernel argument nomodeset that I

shared and reconfigure your system. Then you will not need to manually

enter nomodeset in Grub each time you boot.

You may find this has useful information in regards to getting a

graphical environment working:

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 03:33:51PM -0400, Bone Baboon via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:

Another WM would be the leaner solution, however maybe uvesafb (which

is also used in the installer image) can help you set up GNOME etc.:

Regards,

Florian

I've read it, and I guess that my graphics is not supported because

there is no /dev/dri directory. Thank you!

On 5/13/21 2:33 AM, Bone Baboon wrote:

merge 55006 48343

quit