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authorMaxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>2020-02-11 14:00:06 -0500
committerMaxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>2020-05-20 08:30:34 -0400
commit281d80d8e547fe663aaacb3226119166dd3100f9 (patch)
treeb666edb5528f263fa857ef231a4824f2ec1ffe7e /doc/guix.texi
parent42d41d86f38958ebcff370b0e56da5c69165943c (diff)
linux-boot: Refactor boot-system.
The --root option can now be omitted, and inferred from the root file system declaration instead. * gnu/build/file-systems.scm (canonicalize-device-spec): Extend to support NFS directly, and... * gnu/build/linux-boot.scm (boot-system): ...remove NFS special casing from here. Remove nested definitions for root-fs-type, root-fs-flags and root-fs-options, and bind those inside the let* instead. Make "--root" take precedence over the device field string representation of the root file system. * doc/guix.texi (Initial RAM Disk): Document that "--root" can be left unspecified.
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@@ -26534,9 +26534,10 @@ service activation programs and then spawns the GNU@tie{}Shepherd, the
initialization system.
@item --root=@var{root}
-Mount @var{root} as the root file system. @var{root} can be a
-device name like @code{/dev/sda1}, a file system label, or a file system
-UUID.
+Mount @var{root} as the root file system. @var{root} can be a device
+name like @code{/dev/sda1}, a file system label, or a file system UUID.
+When unspecified, the device name from the root file system of the
+operating system declaration is used.
@item --system=@var{system}
Have @file{/run/booted-system} and @file{/run/current-system} point to