Hi ison,

ison <ison@airmail.cc> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 07, 2019, Jakob L. Kreuze wrote:
>> I'll continue to investigate; perhaps I'll be able to reproduce if I
>> copy your exact partition scheme in the virtual machine. I'm sorry that
>> you had to go through that whole 'guix init' spiel again.
>
> No problem, it's a backup machine anyway, I've held off on updating
> my main (but it doesn't use efi so maybe I can). If this is a
> problem that only I'm having and nobody else then I wonder if a
> fresh install would fix it. Although I'm surprised nobody else seems to be experiencing it.
>
> The only unusual thing I did before it broke is that I tried to consolidate my configs from 2 machines into a single one by adding case statements.
> For example at the top I had (define local-profile 'laptop)
> and then my bootloader was something like:
> (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
>              (case local-profile
>               ((desktop)
>                (bootloader grub-bootloader)
>                ...)
>               ((laptop)
>                (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)
>                ...))))
>
> But I've since reverted back to my old config for all the subsequent
> "guix init" and reconfigures I've done, so it seems unlikely to be the
> cause but I thought I'd mention it anyway.
> Maybe having a BIOS boot partition on /dev/sda1 even though I'm using
> efi is somehow messing it up?

After some further research, I was able to create a virtual machine with
the partition scheme and bootloader configuration that you described.