From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Sep 01 16:41:08 2019 Received: (at 37164) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Sep 2019 20:41:08 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57299 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i4Weq-0004nK-CP for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2019 16:41:08 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50777) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i4Wel-0004mb-JW for 37164@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2019 16:41:06 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52608) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i4Weg-0004oL-1S; Sun, 01 Sep 2019 16:40:58 -0400 Received: from [2a01:e0a:1d:7270:af76:b9b:ca24:c465] (port=41004 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1i4Wef-0001AF-EB; Sun, 01 Sep 2019 16:40:57 -0400 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= To: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: Re: bug#37164: Generated installation image does not include grub. References: <7eb5e5964ad6564c7cc6cc7711b18daf1faac64a.camel@gmail.com> <87o909lj7y.fsf@gnu.org> <20190829023458.1ca4ba50@scratchpost.org> Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 22:40:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20190829023458.1ca4ba50@scratchpost.org> (Danny Milosavljevic's message of "Thu, 29 Aug 2019 02:34:58 +0200") Message-ID: <8736hf92cn.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 37164 Cc: Jesse Gibbons , 37164@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) Hi, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: >> Jesse Gibbons skribis: >>=20 >> > 1. generate the install image >> > guix system disk-image --file-system-type=3Diso9600 --verbosity=3D3 -- >> > root=3Dinstallation-os-x86_64.iso --system=3Dx86_64-linux -e '(@ (gnu >> > system install) installation-os)' > > There's a typo there :) > > You wrote: iso9600 > It should be: iso9660 > > But the error message could be vastly improved O_o As it turns out, what happens is this: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- creating partition table with 2 partitions (1351.0 MiB, 40.0 MiB).... Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performan= ce.. Backtrace:. 4 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/j4941c2hs3dnhj8lvcmclsr4wmk=E2=80= =A6"). In ./gnu/build/vm.scm:. 563:4 3 (initialize-hard-disk "/dev/vda" #:bootloader-package _ =E2=80= =A6). In srfi/srfi-1.scm:. 640:9 2 (for-each # #). In ./gnu/build/vm.scm:. 329:3 1 (initialize-partition #< device: "/dev/vda1"=E2=80= =A6>). In unknown file:. 0 (scm-error misc-error #f "~A" ("Unsupported file syst=E2=80=A6= ") =E2=80=A6). . ERROR: In procedure scm-error:. Unsupported file system.. [ 44.968721] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode= =3D0x00000100. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Unfortunately, as noted in , that still produces an image, albeit a broken image. I=E2=80=99m merging the bugs. To be continued=E2=80=A6 Ludo=E2=80=99.