From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
To: "Ry P." <ry@opal.sh>
Cc: 52266@debbugs.gnu.org
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 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7bn1p6a.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfv9jmji.fsf@opal.sh> (Ry P.'s message of "Fri, 03 Dec 2021 15:13:04 -0800")
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-05 7:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-03 23:13 bug#52266: [Installer] ESP/EFI Partition not being reformatted (if exists) during graphical install by default Ry P. via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-12-05 7:33 ` Mathieu Othacehe [this message]
2021-12-08 21:38 ` opalvaults (Ry) via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-12-10 6:29 ` bug#52266: (no subject) opalvaults (ry) via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-12-27 8:25 ` bug#52266: [Installer] ESP/EFI Partition not being reformatted (if exists) during graphical install by default Mathieu Othacehe
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