From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" Subject: Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 21:55:10 +0200 Message-ID: <20190416195510.4lq3cedamdmusrj7@pelzflorian.localdomain> References: <20190416163242.x4euobjv5sxliwxr@pelzflorian.localdomain> <12886672349372812649@scdbackup.webframe.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42264) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGUAl-0003Q7-V7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:55:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGUAl-0008Dd-3r for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:55:15 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <12886672349372812649@scdbackup.webframe.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Thomas Schmitt Cc: bug-xorriso@gnu.org, guix-devel@gnu.org On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 07:57:20PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Florian Pelz wrote: > > I would prefer an image that can be written just with dd, > > A broken backup GPT is not supposed to stop EFI from finding its partition > and running its architecture specific start-up program. > On the 2011 Macbook I am using, the boot process gets stuck before I can select the drive to boot from, as long as a USB flash drive with this GPT error is in a USB port. The few other computers I tried have no problem with booting from the flash drive. This means I cannot install the Guix distribution on this Macbook using the Guix ISO image. (This is the default UEFI boot process that came with the Macbook. I have never tried setting up Libreboot or anything similar.) Regards, Florian