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From: Quiliro <quiliro@riseup.net>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: installing GuixSD on a Macbook Air A1304
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 15:18:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170610151859.048ae097@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170607112902.1b5e565b@riseup.net>

El Wed, 7 Jun 2017 11:29:02 -0500
Quiliro <quiliro@riseup.net> escribió:

> El Thu, 20 Apr 2017 10:15:52 +0200
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) escribió:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Quiliro <quiliro@riseup.net> skribis:
> > 
> > > Would someone guide me how to install and configure GuixSD for this
> > > UEFI machine? Thanks
> > 
> > Installing to UEFI from the GuixSD 0.12 installation image is rather
> > involved, so I would recommend waiting for the upcoming release, which
> > should have a solution for UEFI.  As you might have seen, Marius has
> > been working on it:
> > 
> >   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-04/msg00364.html
> > 
> > Perhaps you can beta-test the new installation image when it’s ready?
> 
> It boots marvelously. But I cannot install because I either have to use the USB WiFi or the USB installer because there is only one port and the embeded WiFi is non-free.
> 
> I was told I could install it via the Debian that was installed on another partition. But I don't know how to do it. I have Guix installed in Debian.

I installed from Debian using:
guix system init /mnt/etc/bare-bones.scm /mnt
where /mnt is /dev/sda3 (which is also specified on bare-bones.scm). It was correctly finished except it could not install GrUB. So it would not boot. Moreover, rEFInd, the libre EFI boot loader, did not recognize GuixSD. So I tryed 2 things:
1. Booting from the GuixSD USB installer and executing:
guix system reconfigure /mnt/etc/bare-bones.scm
but it would give error: cannot build derivation
2. From Debian I executed:
grub-install
But I get error:
/gnu/store/...-grub-2.02/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh does not exist. Please specify --target or --directory.
This has the same error with these also:
grub-install /dev/sda
grub-install /dev/sda --efi-directory=/mnt/boot/efi
Plus the GuixSD USB installer lacks /gnu/store/...-grub-2.02/lib/grub/x86_64-efi directory.

How can I boot from the GuixSD installed partition?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-10 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-20  4:49 installing GuixSD on a Macbook Air A1304 Quiliro
2017-04-20  8:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-20 12:52   ` Joshua Branson
2017-06-07 16:29   ` Quiliro
2017-06-10 20:18     ` Quiliro [this message]
2017-06-10 20:24       ` Quiliro
2017-06-12  6:43       ` Chris Marusich
2017-06-15 20:35         ` Quiliro

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