bug#40496: cannot install bootloader

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:

> Arne Babenhauserheide <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> The error I receive:
>>
>> building 
>> /gnu/store/fyn1cmq9p38ipp5mlbx1z4gs84qd5jg4-install-bootloader.scm.drv...
>> Backtrace:
>>            1 (primitive-load "/root/.config/guix/current/bin/guix")
>> In guix/ui.scm:
>>   1936:12  0 (run-guix-command _ . _)
>>
>> guix/ui.scm:1936:12: In procedure run-guix-command:
>> ERROR:
>>   1. &message: 
>> "'/gnu/store/xlcbi7dc89n4wvyz4jk6j0g4590ymi6q-grub-efi-2.04/sbin/grub-install
>>  --boot-directory //boot --bootloader-id=Guix --efi-directory //boot/efi' 
>> exited with status 1; output follows:\n\n  
>> /gnu/store/xlcbi7dc89n4wvyz4jk6j0g4590ymi6q-grub-efi-2.04/sbin/grub-install: 
>> error: 
>> /gnu/store/xlcbi7dc89n4wvyz4jk6j0g4590ymi6q-grub-efi-2.04/lib/grub/i386-pc/modinfo.sh
>>  doesn't exist. Please specify --target or --directory.\n"
>
> This error suggests that you are attempting to use EFI GRUB on a non-EFI
> system.
>
> More specifically, you are using 'grub-efi-bootloader', but 'grub-efi'
> failed to detect a UEFI system and attempts to install the 'i386-pc'
> (BIOS) target instead, which does not exist in 'grub-efi'.
>
> Does that ring a bell?

Yes: I’m now booting from the live-USB Stick of Guix, so grub might not
detect that this is a UEFI system.

I don’t know why it stopped booting. After a pull + system reconfigure
on 30th of March, the bios did not see my system disk as bootable
anymore — but this could also be due to problems in the disk, so I’m not
sure that it’s due to Guix.

Best wishes,
Arne
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