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bug#64593: ‘guix system image’ fails to create image while invoking ‘gru
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#64593: ‘guix system image’ fails to create image while invoking ‘grub-bios-setup’ |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Aug 2023 09:35:36 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> skribis:
> Sergey Trofimov <sarg@sarg.org.ru> writes:
>
>> shouldn't it be `(bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)` if you're
>> building a `efi-raw` image?
>> With efi grub it builds and boots just fine, as I've tested before
>> submitting the patch.
>
> I think I agree with you that you should expect efi images to use efi
> bootloaders. The efi-raw image name is a bit misleading I would argue,
> since the image type doesn't decide what bootloader is used, and using a
> BIOS bootloader with an efi image seems a bit weird. The fact that it's
> used as the default image type is a bit troubling though, so we could
> add a new default image type that uses MBR, so that BIOS bootloaders
> work with it.
Yes, we could do that.
I guess my confusion stems from the fact that the default image type
changed to EFI recently (right?).
Thanks,
Ludo’.
- bug#64593: ‘guix system image’ fails to create image while invoking ‘grub-bios-setup’,
Ludovic Courtès <=