From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>,
Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Cc: 30311@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30311: efi-less grub install fails
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:40:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inbgq3wp.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180201003414.4a535dec@scratchpost.org>
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Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:
> Hi Ricardo,
>
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 19:55:58 +0100
> Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> wrote:
>
>> “guix system init” fails with a configuration file that specifies
>> grub-bootloader (not grub-efi-bootloader).
>>
>> “grub-install” reports an error about “lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh”
>> not being available. It suggests passing “--target” or “--device”.
>>
>> Our invocation of grub-install does not include a “--target” argument.
>> Only after I edited it to pass “--target=i386-pc” did “guix system init”
>> pass.
>
> Hmm, I wonder what happened here.
>
> We've been very careful to keep grub and grub-efi separate.
>
> The entire directory lib/grub/x86_64-efi shouldn't be available in the
> "grub" package output - and I checked on master, it isn't. Good.
>
> So that leaves automatic target selection as the culprit.
>
> And indeed, there's a call to grub_install_get_default_x86_platform
> in util/grub-install.c . And that checks for availability of
> /sys/firmware/efi and if it exists, defaults to EFI.
>
> I think it's a bug in grub to do that for a grub which doesn't have EFI
> platform support. :P
>
> We could just always pass i386-pc in install-grub for i386, but then
> we lose i386-ieee1275 (which I have never heard anyone using so maybe
> not so bad).
I agree, passing --target seems like the best workaround for this GRUB
bug.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-01 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-31 18:55 bug#30311: efi-less grub install fails Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-31 23:34 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-01 12:40 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2018-02-18 11:28 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-31 23:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-18 16:20 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-02-18 16:49 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-20 21:40 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-20 21:43 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-20 21:49 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-20 22:00 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-03-26 21:15 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-20 3:21 ` Marius Bakke
2018-02-20 3:46 ` Marius Bakke
2018-02-20 20:54 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-20 21:00 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-22 15:06 ` Marius Bakke
2018-02-22 15:47 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-23 11:30 ` Marius Bakke
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