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From: Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be>
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: repair broken boot record
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 10:23:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7bd51847fd4893941b9850f345d00f5d@thomasdanckaert.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211005110432.hgjwehtz7gb2436n@pelzflorian.localdomain>

On 2021-10-05 13:04, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 11:28:50AM +0200, Thomas Danckaert wrote:
>> In one of the final
>> steps, where guix tries to install the bootloader, I get the error:
>> 
>> /gnu/store/.../grub/i386-pc/modinfo.sh doesn't exist. Please specify
>> --target or --directory.
> 
> This is strange.  When you reconfigure, Guix should print the
> grub-install command that was used, which should include both --target
> and --directory.

The full message is:

guix system: error: 
'/gnu/store/v77n5m....grub-efi-2.06/sbin/grub-install --boot-directory 
//boot --bootloader-id=Guix --efi-directory=/boot/efi' exited with 
status 1; output follows:

   /gnu/store/.../grub-install: error: 
/gnu/store/.../lib/grub/i386-pc/modinfo.sh doesn't exist.  Please 
specify --target or --directory'

Note that the grub-install command doens't contain '--target' or 
'--directory'.  (Also: my system is x64, and this seems to be for i386.  
Should there be a --target=x64_86-efi somewhere?)

> However, perhaps the chroot is at fault: Before chrooting to, let’s
> say, /mnt with chroot /mnt, you need to have mounted the /dev/sdXy
> file system with EFI on it (that which is declared in your config.scm)
> to /mnt/boot/efi.

I have in my config 'target /boot/efi'.  My EFI partition is /dev/sda1.  
If I mount it like
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt2
(/mnt2 because I already have my /dev/sda3 partition with guix at /mnt)
I find the following layout:

/mnt2/EFI/
           EFI
           grub
           Guix

what would be the correct bind mount?  I tried
# mount --bind /mnt2/EFI /boot/efi
so I now have
/boot/efi/
           EFI
           grub
           Guix

Any idea if that is the desired layout?

thanks!

Thomas





  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-06  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-30  7:43 repair broken boot record Thomas Danckaert
2021-10-01  6:53 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-10-05  9:28   ` Thomas Danckaert
2021-10-05 11:04     ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-10-06  8:23       ` Thomas Danckaert [this message]
2021-10-06  9:28         ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2021-12-13 14:16           ` Thomas Danckaert
2021-12-13 16:12             ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)

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