Reposting because it looks like federation failed.

I was just reading about it, it sounds like a pretty cool OS and package manager. Has anyone actually used it?

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    That sounds like a BIOS issue. I sometimes get these on my laptop where I installed an EFI partition but my laptop was in some legacy mode, and I need to fiddle with my boot options and disable various features until the system “sees” the boot partition in the same way the OS “saw” it

    • Octorine@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      I was thinking something to do with nonvolitile memory.

      The real problem was that the guided install - guix pull - system reconfigure - reboot process took about three to four hours each time, so I gave up after a few iterations.

      I did try playing around with bios settings a little, but I’m sure I missed some possibilities.

      • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        guix pull - system reconfigure - reboot process took about three to four hours each time,

        That’s exceptionally long. Could it be that you were building every tool from scratch, and weren’t using any binary servers?

        • Octorine@midwest.socialEnglish
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          6 months ago

          I’m pretty sure I was set up for substitutes, but this was a while ago.

          I did end up replacing my router a few months after that, so it may have just been that my connection was very slow.

          Also, every time I tried it and it didn’t work, I had to do a full Pop Os install in order for myguix install media to start working again, which added a few minutes to the process.