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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr>
To: Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz>
Cc: 64593@debbugs.gnu.org, yann.dupont@univ-nantes.fr, sarg@sarg.org.ru
Subject: bug#64593: ‘guix system image’ fails to create image while invoking ‘grub-bios-setup’
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2023 09:35:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edkfxq2f.fsf@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8ege1f8.fsf@jpoiret.xyz> (Josselin Poiret's message of "Wed,  19 Jul 2023 10:43:55 +0200")

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’.




  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-07  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-13  9:33 bug#64593: ‘guix system image’ fails to create image while invoking ‘grub-bios-setup’ Ludovic Courtès
2023-07-16 11:08 ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-07-17 16:11   ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-07-27 16:35     ` bug#64593: [PATCH] image: Add mbr-raw-image-type and use by default Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-07-27 17:47       ` Nicolas Graves via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-08-07  7:39       ` bug#64593: ‘guix system image’ fails to create image while invoking ‘grub-bios-setup’ Ludovic Courtès
2023-07-18 18:34 ` Sergey Trofimov
2023-07-19  8:43   ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-08-07  7:35     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2023-08-08  9:02       ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-08-25 16:33         ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-07-21  7:43 ` Yann Dupont

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