>> It seems like the mount failed, which is fishy. Does /.rw-store exist
>> after that? Normally ‘deco start cow-store’ creates it, and then
>> immediately mounts a unionfs on it, and moves it to /gnu/store.
>> Did you try without ‘--no-substitutes’? You may get a message about
>> hydra.gnu.org being unresponsive, which means that the server is a bit
>> slow, which is unfortunately often the case currently. This is an
>> annoyance, but should not prevent installation.
Sorry for the delay in replying. Effectively, I was wrong: hydra substitutes work well, but it issues other error now:
My new attempt, step by step:
$ qemu-img create -f raw gnuguix.img 30G
$ qemu-img create -f raw swap.img 10G
$
qemu-system-i386 -hda gnuguix.img -hdb swap.img -m 2048 -net nic,model=e1000 -net user -vga std -usb -usbdevice
disk:format=raw:gnu-usb-install-07.i686 -boot menu=on
# dhclient eth0
e1000 eth0 is up
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda 32.2 GB
Disk /dev/sdb 10.7 GB
Disk /dev/sdc 786 MB
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda
# mount /dev/sda /mnt
# mkswap /dev/sdb
# swapon /dev/sdb
# free -m
total used free
Men 2019 115 1904
swap 10239 0 10239
# deco start cow-store /mnt/gnuguix
service cow-store has been started
fuse: bad mount point '/.rw-store': No such file or directory
# df -h
df: '/real-root':No such file or directory
df: '/rw-root': No such file or directory
df: '/root//dev': No such file or directory
df: '/.rw-store': No such file or directory
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 1.7G 717M 1010M 42% /
tmpfs 1010M 0 1010M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda 30G 44M 28G 1% /mnt
/.rw-store 32G 1.8G 28G 6% /gnu/store
# cp /etc/configuration-template.scm /mnt/config.scm
# nano /mnt/config.scm
I changed only: (bootloader (grub-configuration (device "/dev/sda")))
#guix system init /mnt/config.scm /mnt
After 2 hours it issues the following error:
/gnu/store/...-grub-2.0.0/sbin/grub-bios-setup:warning:File system 'ext2' doesn't support embedding.
/gnu/store/...-grub-2.0.0/sbin/grub-bios-setup:warning:Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installedin this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged.
guix system:error: failed to install GRUB on device '/dev/sda'
1814 operations.