Re: Status update on 1.0

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Danny,

Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:26:55 +0100
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Anyway, you’re still very much welcome to test the installer!  See the
>> manual on how to build the installation image:
>> 
>>   
>> https://gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Building-the-Installation-Image.html
>
> I've tried this on qemu and had the infamous "waiting for udev" problem Mark
> also saw on Hydra before.

Oh?!  We have an open bug report on this, right?

> After rebooting, the same image worked fine.
> The installer also works fine and looks great!

Cool.

> Also, I used the non-iso9660 disk image because the iso9660 disk image (not 
> documented
> on the page above either) has 1.5 MB (not a typo).
>
> $ file /gnu/store/lcx2w0y6pi6av4qhipmwc9xjzy4p7gbd-image.iso
> /gnu/store/lcx2w0y6pi6av4qhipmwc9xjzy4p7gbd-image.iso: DOS/MBR boot sector; 
> GRand Unified Bootloader, stage1 version 0x79, boot drive 0xbb, stage2 
> address 0x8e70, 1st sector stage2 0xb8db31c3, stage2 segment 0x201; partition 
> 1 : ID=0xee, start-CHS (0x0,0,2), end-CHS (0x3f8,9,12), startsector 1, 
> 3121451 sectors, extended partition table (last)
>
> $ stat /gnu/store/lcx2w0y6pi6av4qhipmwc9xjzy4p7gbd-image.iso
>   File: /gnu/store/lcx2w0y6pi6av4qhipmwc9xjzy4p7gbd-image.iso
>   Size: 1495040         Blocks: 2920       IO Block: 4096   regular file
> Device: 801h/2049d      Inode: 34661153    Links: 2
> Access: (0444/-r--r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
> Access: 2019-03-27 23:25:26.240200749 +0100
> Modify: 1970-01-01 01:00:01.000000000 +0100
> Change: 2019-03-27 23:25:26.248200669 +0100
>  Birth: -

Weird.  I tested the ISO image as well and it did produce a valid ISO
image (more than 1 GiB).  What command did you type, from which commit?

Thanks,
Ludo’.