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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add grub-efi.
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 14:53:36 +0100
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Hello!

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:

>>> OK. I'll try to find out why tests don't work with the UEFI variant
>>> first in order to at least write a meaningful comment. Maybe qemu needs
>>> UEFI support or something like that.
>>
>> It might be that we no longer need QEMU 1.3.1 to run the tests (see the
>> top of gnu/packages/grub.scm)?
>
> The problem is missing UEFI firmware for the qemu calls. But we indeed
> no longer need qemu@1.3.1 for the tests, at least on x86_64. I replaced
> it with 'qemu-minimal'. Pushed!

Great!

I=E2=80=99m failing at installing GuixSD on a new laptop I have here.
=E2=80=98efibootmgr=E2=80=99 exits with code 2 and this message:

  EFI variables are not supported on this system.

(which =E2=80=98grub-install=E2=80=99 happily ignores.)

This is because /sys/firmware/efi is missing, which apparently is
because I booted off the GuixSD USB image (=E2=80=9Clegacy=E2=80=9D) and no=
t in EFI
mode.

What would you suggest?  :-)

TIA,
Ludo=E2=80=99.