bug#26714: non-intel systems should use grub-efi

bug#26714: non-intel systems should use grub-efi

[Efraim Flashner]

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I'm starting to stumble my way through building an install image for
aarch64, and I changed gnu/system/install.scm to use 'grub-efi' in place
of 'grub' in the list of packages (~line 333). Grub-efi builds
successfully on armhf and aarch64 and grub does not, and as part of
compiling install.scm grub is built as part of assembling the image.

guix size grub:     157.5 MiB
guix size grub-efi: 160.5 MiB

I don't know a lot of how the install image is put together, or if using
grub-efi in place of grub for building the image would be a problem for
non-efi machines, but for non-intel machines at least we should use
grub-efi for the grub calls.


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bug#26714: non-intel systems should use grub-efi

[Marius Bakke]

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Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:

> I'm starting to stumble my way through building an install image for
> aarch64, and I changed gnu/system/install.scm to use 'grub-efi' in place
> of 'grub' in the list of packages (~line 333). Grub-efi builds
> successfully on armhf and aarch64 and grub does not, and as part of
> compiling install.scm grub is built as part of assembling the image.

How does grub fail to build aarch64? This sounds like an upstream bug.

Note that 'grub-efi' currently does not have tests enabled.

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bug#26714: non-intel systems should use grub-efi

[Efraim Flashner]

On April 30, 2017 5:10:08 PM GMT+03:00, Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:
>Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
>
>> I'm starting to stumble my way through building an install image for
>> aarch64, and I changed gnu/system/install.scm to use 'grub-efi' in
>place
>> of 'grub' in the list of packages (~line 333). Grub-efi builds
>> successfully on armhf and aarch64 and grub does not, and as part of
>> compiling install.scm grub is built as part of assembling the image.
>
>How does grub fail to build aarch64? This sounds like an upstream bug.
>
>Note that 'grub-efi' currently does not have tests enabled.

As we discussed briefly on irc, the tests indeed are not run for grub-efi.  Grub fails during the test phase in a similar manner to arm failing, with many many test failures.

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bug#26714: non-intel systems should use grub-efi

[Chris Marusich]

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Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:

> I'm starting to stumble my way through building an install image for
> aarch64, and I changed gnu/system/install.scm to use 'grub-efi' in place
> of 'grub' in the list of packages (~line 333). Grub-efi builds
> successfully on armhf and aarch64 and grub does not, and as part of
> compiling install.scm grub is built as part of assembling the image.
>
> guix size grub:     157.5 MiB
> guix size grub-efi: 160.5 MiB
>
> I don't know a lot of how the install image is put together, or if using
> grub-efi in place of grub for building the image would be a problem for
> non-efi machines, but for non-intel machines at least we should use
> grub-efi for the grub calls.

Do the system installation tests pass with that change?  You can run the
following to find out:

  make check-system

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bug#26714: non-intel systems should use grub-efi

[Marius Bakke]

GRUB builds successfully on armhf and aarch64 nowadays, so I'm closing
this bug.