Re: Dualbooting with guixsd not handling grub installation

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Oleg Pykhalov <address@hidden> skribis:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Oleg Pykhalov <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> [...]
>
>>> Are linux linux-arguments initrd in menu-entry required?
>>
>> Currently yes: this is how you tell GRUB what to boot.
>
> I see an issue with it, because not always you want them.
>
>>> Maybe we could have configfile field?
>>> https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/configfile.html
>>
>> Yes, we could do that.  One question is how to integrated properly since
>> ‘menu-entry’ is now bootloader-independent.  Perhaps Mathieu or Danny
>> have ideas?
>
> We could start by adding a way to add anything.  Here is a patch.
> Probably ugly, but as a draft and idea about additional-options.
>
> From 7d7162a8ec78c84e7eba3ae9f7c4fbf07703617e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Oleg Pykhalov <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 08:59:30 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] bootloader: Add additional-options to menu-entry.
>
> * gnu/bootloader.scm (<menu-entry>)[additional-options]: New field.
> * gnu/bootloader/grub.scm (grub-configuration-file): Handle this.

[...]

> Which allows to use additional-options in menu-entry:
> 
> (operating-system
> …
>  (bootloader
>   (bootloader-configuration
>    (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)
>    (target "/boot/efi")
>    (menu-entries
>     (list (menu-entry
>            (label "Another distro")
>            (linux "")
>            (initrd "")
>            (additional-options '("search --label --set another-disk-label"
>                                  "configfile /boot/grub/grub.cfg")))))))
> …)

I think we should keep ‘menu-entry’ bootloader-independent.  I’m
actually not sure what problem we’re trying to solve: is it that the
‘root’ variable in GRUB gets set to the wrong partition when you try to
dual-boot?

In that case, perhaps a solution would be to add a ‘root’ field to
<menu-entry>, that could default to 'auto to obtain the current
behavior?

Ludo’.