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@jfred @cwebber

Yeah, kexec exists, and "guix system reconfigure ..." even generates a kexec script to reboot without going all the way into the bootloader... and sometimes even suceeds!

Maybe for some systems it is quite reliable; I have had mixed results, so not sure I would want to rely on kexec without a lot of testing...

Off the top of my head, petitboot implemented a "boot to minimal linux and kexec to full system" sort of interface... there may be other projects in this space as well.

@cwebber @jfred

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!