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Subject: bug#30312: documentation: misleading EFI partitioning instructions
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 22:14:09 +0200
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Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:

[...]

>>> I'm not sure how to best resolve the first issue.  I suppose we can
>>> mention that if unsure which GRUB to use, the user can test whether
>>> "/sys/firmware/efi" exists on the live image.
>>>=20
>>> We could also make it clearer when booting whether the installer is in
>>> "UEFI" mode or not.
>>
>> Maybe =E2=80=98guix system=E2=80=99 could warn, but I=E2=80=99m not sure=
 how to do that in a
>> clean way.
>
> I was thinking a visual hint when booting the live USB, e.g. in the
> motd:
>
> (if (file-exists? "/sys/firmware/efi")
>      "Welcome to the GuixSD installation image (UEFI mode)!".
>      "Welcome to the GuixSD installation image!")
>
> I think Debian does something like this in the boot menu (IIRC).

The body is just plain static text, so I=E2=80=99m not sure how we could do
this.  We=E2=80=99d need a bit of code to do that in /etc/profile or someth=
ing.
Ideas?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.