Soon I hope to be able to run Guix proper on my MNT Pocket Reform...
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@jfred I have opened and stared at @vagrantc's config several times https://codeberg.org/vagrantc/mnt-reform-guix-config/src/branch/main/config-mnt-reform.scm
One thing tho is Guix still doesn't have the nice option Debian has for unencrypted /boot and encrypted rest-of-root! Which without Grub becomes a lot more important...
(I think Nix has it, and has the same challenges that Guix does, but they seem to have solved it; presumably we could too?)
@cwebber @vagrantc Oh yeah that bit me years ago too when I was booting a Guix machine off of Heads (which likewise doesn't use grub). In that case though I could manually decrypt from the recovery shell, which isn't possible on the Reforms yet due to the lack of graphics in early boot
That might be a sticking point for Guix on MNT hardware too, since rolling back to previous generations from the boot menu is one of the nicer features of Guix
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@cwebber @vagrantc Oh yeah that bit me years ago too when I was booting a Guix machine off of Heads (which likewise doesn't use grub). In that case though I could manually decrypt from the recovery shell, which isn't possible on the Reforms yet due to the lack of graphics in early boot
That might be a sticking point for Guix on MNT hardware too, since rolling back to previous generations from the boot menu is one of the nicer features of Guix
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Soon I hope to be able to run Guix proper on my MNT Pocket Reform... I'm still running Guix on top of Debian due to my limited time to sort through things
@cwebber i have guix system running on my pocket from nvme (which is possible with the latest u-boot for pocket), my config isn't on a public git forge yet but if you want to i could help you or anyone interested in this getting things up and running at guix days
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@jfred I have opened and stared at @vagrantc's config several times https://codeberg.org/vagrantc/mnt-reform-guix-config/src/branch/main/config-mnt-reform.scm
One thing tho is Guix still doesn't have the nice option Debian has for unencrypted /boot and encrypted rest-of-root! Which without Grub becomes a lot more important...
(I think Nix has it, and has the same challenges that Guix does, but they seem to have solved it; presumably we could too?)
@cwebber @jfred @vagrantc you could have another minimal kernel + initramfs that decrypts /boot and then loads guix's kernel with kexec (something like u-root, except u-root doesn't support LUKS (but if disk space isn't an issue you could probably include a cryptsetup binary with u-root if you wanted to use that)) -
@cwebber @jfred @vagrantc you could have another minimal kernel + initramfs that decrypts /boot and then loads guix's kernel with kexec (something like u-root, except u-root doesn't support LUKS (but if disk space isn't an issue you could probably include a cryptsetup binary with u-root if you wanted to use that))@cwebber @jfred @vagrantc this also has the advantage that it wouldn't be as slow as GRUB to decrypt your disk, and if you wanted to you could avoid entering your disk encryption password twice by either putting the key into the second (encrypted) initramfs (although this has security implications for LUKS2 because it makes the key accessible from userspace) or possibly using kexec handover (which I'm not sure how to do, or if it would require kernel modifications, but that is a thing)
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@cwebber i have guix system running on my pocket from nvme (which is possible with the latest u-boot for pocket), my config isn't on a public git forge yet but if you want to i could help you or anyone interested in this getting things up and running at guix days
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I am going to propagandize at Guix Days that the Guix community should rally around MNT's open hardware laptop things because I hate the direction computer hardware has been going in otherwise and MNT's shit is getting better to use all the time
@cwebber Doesn’t MNT devices require a non-free blob to train DDR memory, and to even start at all? Which to me is worse than optional WiFi or GPU blobs. The state of libre-friendly user controllable hardware is sad. The MNT effort is great, and helps, but for me this became a deal-breaker to rely more on my MNT Reform.
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@jfred I have opened and stared at @vagrantc's config several times https://codeberg.org/vagrantc/mnt-reform-guix-config/src/branch/main/config-mnt-reform.scm
One thing tho is Guix still doesn't have the nice option Debian has for unencrypted /boot and encrypted rest-of-root! Which without Grub becomes a lot more important...
(I think Nix has it, and has the same challenges that Guix does, but they seem to have solved it; presumably we could too?)
There is a workaround, essentially a script that manually copies over the relevant files into an unencrypted /boot:
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/48172#4
If you wanted to preserve rollbacks, you'd have to copy all the relevant generations boot files (kernel, initrd, dtb) and adjust the extlinux.conf appropriately, and plan for a larger than expected size for /boot... because this is #Guix :)
Unencrypted rootfs blocks me from really using it more, too!
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I am going to propagandize at Guix Days that the Guix community should rally around MNT's open hardware laptop things because I hate the direction computer hardware has been going in otherwise and MNT's shit is getting better to use all the time
@cwebber
I would love a reform next, if the support for Linux was better on arm -
@cwebber Doesn’t MNT devices require a non-free blob to train DDR memory, and to even start at all? Which to me is worse than optional WiFi or GPU blobs. The state of libre-friendly user controllable hardware is sad. The MNT effort is great, and helps, but for me this became a deal-breaker to rely more on my MNT Reform.
@jas There are different modules you can swap in, iirc this doesn't apply to all of them but I'm not quite sure. Regardless, the big thing is we *can* switch out the modules with MNT devices. Even RISC-V and FPGA modules exist for it
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@evan interesting thoughts, I've been thinking (and trying to write) about the same issue from an European angle, especially about the relationship between states and "nations". One thread that I want to explore further, especially for multiculturalism and immigrants/diaspora is the concept of Doikayt that the Jewish Bund advocated for. That might be a thread in your issues as well.
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