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From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 47889@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 16:38:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210422143651.fwdrrqmcw225eh23@pelzflorian.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878s5a1m9k.fsf@gnu.org>

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 03:28:39PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> There’s no EFI (vfat) partition here.  Is it an EFI machine?
> 
> Is /boot/efi mounted when you boot the installation image?

No because there is no EFI partition.  If I create one and restart the
installer, then it is *not* mounted either, only /mnt/boot/efi later
during the install.  (I believe since the installer is installed as on
an external medium, it does not need an EFI partition.)

I had booted the install image via UEFI boot and had expected auto
partitioning and the default configuration to do the right thing.

> If it were EFI, it would be a GPT partition table, not a DOS one.

Thank you for explaining.  If Guix defaults require GPT on EFI
(according to
<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFI_system_partition#Create_the_partition>)
some computers apparently really do not support dos partition tables
for the EFI system partition), then I think
gnu/installer/newt/partition.scm should disallow selecting a DOS
scheme when auto partitioning the entire disk.

Regards,
Florian




  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-22 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-19  9:29 bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-04-19 11:01 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-04-19 17:27 ` Leo Famulari
2021-04-19 20:19   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-04-22 13:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-22 14:38   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) [this message]
2021-04-23 10:39     ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-23 11:12       ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-04-24  3:24       ` Bengt Richter
2021-04-24  9:31         ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-04-25 14:15       ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-04-25 16:34         ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-04-25 17:12           ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-04-26 11:17             ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-04-26 15:53             ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-26 16:37               ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-04-27 16:48                 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-04-28 13:54                   ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-04-29  7:45                     ` Ludovic Courtès

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