From: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Cc: 40496@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40496: cannot install bootloader
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:18:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnchoc3a.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lfn590pl.fsf@web.de>
Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> writes:
>> I mean in the firmware boot menu. The way UEFI works is that
>> bootloaders update the firmware directly with a name, EFI System
>> Partition, and executable (most likely "/EFI/Guix/grubx64.efi").
>
> Ah, I did not know that. Thank you!
>
>> This also requires booting in "EFI mode" so that /sys/firmware/efi is
>> present. The live USB image supports EFI, but you may need to disable
>> "legacy boot" to make it boot in EFI mode.
>
> I’ll try that.
It worked. I’m still a bit unbelieving. I booted with CSM (compatibility
mode) disabled, then ran guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm and
after the next reboot I could boot without the boot f̶l̶o̶p̶p̶y̶ USB stick.
Thank you very, very much!
Now I’ll just have to figure out what I do with my new M2-spare :-)
Best wishes,
Arne
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-08 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-07 20:24 bug#40496: cannot install bootloader Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-04-07 20:40 ` Marius Bakke
2020-04-07 21:16 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-04-07 22:38 ` Marius Bakke
2020-04-08 6:48 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-04-08 9:53 ` Marius Bakke
2020-04-08 20:33 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-04-08 22:18 ` Arne Babenhauserheide [this message]
2020-04-07 22:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-07 22:23 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
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