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bug#52266: [Installer] ESP/EFI Partition not being reformatted (if exist


From: Mathieu Othacehe
Subject: bug#52266: [Installer] ESP/EFI Partition not being reformatted (if exists) during graphical install by default.
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 08:33:33 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux)

Hello,

> Brief Summary: It appears as though the Guix installer does not
> reformat the EFI/ESP partition if it already exists.

Sorry the installation failed for you :(.

While it's true that the Guix installer doesn't reformat the ESP
partition if it already exists, that shouldn't cause any issue. That's
what happened when I installed Guix on my X1 Nano.

> Effects: It creates a GRUB2 error which states that it can not find
> the filesystem properly. In my case, it’s because Grub expected a
> previous OS’s filesystem information (Fedora), but as the EFI
> partition was not modified in the install, the .cfg did not reflect
> the new GUIX filesystem UUID.

Could you share the Grub error you encountered?

Thanks,

Mathieu





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