From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: grub-install failing while system reconfigure
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 16:38:30 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87358cjd5l.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68C8022F-7D29-451F-9FA6-1605BC6D2A78@lepiller.eu> (Julien Lepiller's message of "Sun, 15 Jan 2023 09:02:23 +0100")
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Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
> This happened to me recently. The system wouldn't even boot after
> that…
My Guix GRUB EFI boot entry is also now gone. Fortunately, I had
another GRUB installed with a Guix entry, so I can still get into Guix
(an older system generation, though).
> It seems the issue is that grub appends some config in bios NV
> memory, which is separate from your EFI partition, and it filled up.
>
> I found two potential solutions: remove the variables (somewhere in
> /sys I think)
Does anybody know how?
> or enter bios and factory-reset it.
What are the consequences of that? I'm afraid. Would it make the still
existing EFI boot entries go missing?
> After that, guix
> won't boot, so I had to use an installation disk and follow "entering
> a chroot" from the manual to reconfigure the system and finally
> boot.
I think I don't have a Guix image. Would a Trisquel image do? (I guess
yes.)
> Grub now looks funny, but it worked :)
I don't care about GRUB's look, I just need to get into Guix.
>
> Le 15 janvier 2023 07:03:06 GMT+01:00, Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> a écrit :
>>
>>grub-install is saying no space left, but I still have much space
>>available in both root and EFI partition.
>>
>>--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>akib@gnu-guix:~/dotfiles$ sudo guix system reconfigure ~/dotfiles/guix/system-config.scm
>>The following derivation will be built:
>> /gnu/store/ss6c3krd1wwbg7kybdr8pkrl7jy3cc79-grub.cfg.drv
>>
>>building /gnu/store/ss6c3krd1wwbg7kybdr8pkrl7jy3cc79-grub.cfg.drv...
>>/gnu/store/i3bl3mpy92hwm6v1n74slvyvlgnpg85g-system
>>/gnu/store/hhm7spb2xdd6i5ci8p6wjs9dalv9g18a-grub.cfg
>>
>>activating system...
>>making '/gnu/store/i3bl3mpy92hwm6v1n74slvyvlgnpg85g-system' the current system...
>>setting up setuid programs in '/run/setuid-programs'...
>>populating /etc from /gnu/store/dkr38kkqiykn86qxmqq0vmd86kf8v7qr-etc...
>>The following derivation will be built:
>> /gnu/store/77k62g58nhi9kaxfryfa3b54a9i53gd6-install-bootloader.scm.drv
>>
>>building /gnu/store/77k62g58nhi9kaxfryfa3b54a9i53gd6-install-bootloader.scm.drv...
>>guix system: error:
>> '/gnu/store/ch9q9w5zbvgq8srr6dscq6hdf03pfqb4-grub-efi-2.06/sbin/grub-install
>> --boot-directory //boot --bootloader-id=Guix --efi-directory
>> //boot/efi' exited with status 1; output follows:
>>
>> Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
>> Could not prepare Boot variable: No space left on device
>> /gnu/store/ch9q9w5zbvgq8srr6dscq6hdf03pfqb4-grub-efi-2.06/sbin/grub-install: error: efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: Input/output error.
>>
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>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-15 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-15 6:03 grub-install failing while system reconfigure Akib Azmain Turja
2023-01-15 8:02 ` Julien Lepiller
2023-01-15 10:38 ` Akib Azmain Turja [this message]
2023-01-15 13:52 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2023-01-15 20:02 ` Felix Lechner via
2023-01-16 16:40 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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