From: Ian Eure <ian@retrospec.tv>
To: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Laptop won’t boot after Guix install
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 13:18:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8734v1q6bk.fsf@retrospec.tv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87frz662b0.fsf@lease-up.com>
Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> writes:
> Hi Ian,
>
> On Mon, Jan 08 2024, Roman Riabenko via wrote:
>
>> Sometimes, the installer makes a BIOS-compatible installation
>> which
>> fails to run from UEFI.
>
> I like to check 'efibootmgr' inside the
> installer. Alternatively, you
> can look at the NVRAM contents with evivars. (I don't have
> experience
> yet with the newer efivarfs, but I think that's similar.) If you
> cannot
> find the UEFI boot variables, then GRUB cannot either---and the
> setup
> will be defective. It will not boot in UEFI.
>
> Old GRUB boot sectors can make the boot experience even more
> confusing.
>
I’ve tried wiping both the entire SSD, and just the first 100mb,
both with random data and zeros. Either would obliterate any
legacy boot sector which may have been present.
Can you talk a bit more about using efibootmgr inside the
installer?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-13 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-06 3:41 Laptop won’t boot after Guix install Ian Eure
2024-01-06 7:28 ` Julien Lepiller
2024-01-13 21:12 ` Ian Eure
2024-02-21 4:38 ` Ian Eure
2024-01-08 19:08 ` Roman Riabenko via
2024-01-09 13:53 ` Felix Lechner via
2024-01-09 14:49 ` Roman Riabenko via
2024-01-13 21:18 ` Ian Eure [this message]
2024-01-13 21:15 ` Ian Eure
2024-01-08 21:11 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
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