From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: rendaw <7e9wc56emjakcm@s.rendaw.me>
Cc: 35380-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35380: disk-image fails to install efi grub
Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 22:19:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0l2exld.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <323096f6-9382-c3fd-1dc5-486c4737b12f@s.rendaw.me> (rendaw's message of "Thu, 25 Apr 2019 19:27:14 +0900")
Hi rendaw,
rendaw <7e9wc56emjakcm@s.rendaw.me> skribis:
> On 4/25/19 5:44 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
[...]
>> Exactly: currently QEMU is run with a plain old BIOS, and not with the
>> UEFI firmware, so what you want is not implemented yet (see the comment
>> in gnu/system/vm.scm:799).
>>
>> I’m closing this bug, but you can open a wishlist item about it if you
>> want!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ludo’.
>
> I'm not going to comment on the wishlist thing, but this seems like a
> fairly huge problem:
>
> 1. The documentation doesn't mention this anywhere! Not in the
> bootloader docs, not in the disk-image docs, not in the "limitations",
> not in "hardware considerations"
>
> 2. I've spent several _days_ now digging through Guix source code and
> never found that message.
I’m sorry to hear that. I guess that the reason the documentation
doesn’t mention it is that users didn’t find it all that important.
My guess is that to many of us, using a VM is a way to test an OS, and
it doesn’t matter in that context whether the emulated machine uses a PC
BIOS or UEFI.
I understand that it does matter in some cases, so I agree we should
support it. I don’t know exactly what it would take, but if you have
ideas, they’d be welcome.
> 3. The build still completes with a successful exit code. The only way
> to find out the image doesn't have a bootloader (-> is unusable) is to
> try to boot it
Yes, that’s an unfortunate bug reported here:
<https://issues.guix.info/issue/34276>.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-01 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-22 16:06 bug#35380: disk-image fails to install efi grub rendaw
[not found] ` <handler.35380.B.155594918611499.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2019-04-22 17:11 ` bug#35380: Acknowledgement (disk-image fails to install efi grub) rendaw
2019-04-25 8:44 ` bug#35380: disk-image fails to install efi grub Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-25 10:27 ` rendaw
2019-05-01 20:19 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-05-02 9:05 ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-05-02 15:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-02 22:17 ` Marius Bakke
2019-05-03 13:18 ` rendaw
2019-05-03 15:10 ` Marius Bakke
2019-05-04 3:42 ` rendaw
2019-05-04 14:34 ` Marius Bakke
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