From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Roy Lemmon <roy@roylemmon.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: failure to create disk-image
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:21:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87368unebn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH5rZC5D7VnzHsqaCd1AGHVq=WtTGgqaKTMcYgwpc1yKiyinow@mail.gmail.com> (Roy Lemmon's message of "Wed, 1 Apr 2020 15:52:21 +0100")
Hi Roy,
Roy Lemmon <roy@roylemmon.com> skribis:
> installing bootloader...
> Backtrace:
> 1 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/abqhniaagz11v7w8kz83ha1s6fc…")
> In ./gnu/build/vm.scm:
> 590:6 0 (initialize-hard-disk "/dev/vda" #:bootloader-package _ …)
>
> ./gnu/build/vm.scm:590:6: In procedure initialize-hard-disk:
> Throw to key `srfi-34' with args `(#<condition &message [message:
> "'/gnu/store/xlcbi7dc89n4wvyz4jk6j0g4590ymi6q-grub-efi-2.04/sbin/grub-install
> --boot-directory /fs/boot --bootloader-id=Guix --efi-directory /fs/dev/vda'
> exited with status 1; output follows:\n\n
> /gnu/store/xlcbi7dc89n4wvyz4jk6j0g4590ymi6q-grub-efi-2.04/sbin/grub-install:
> error:
> /gnu/store/xlcbi7dc89n4wvyz4jk6j0g4590ymi6q-grub-efi-2.04/lib/grub/i386-pc/modinfo.sh
> doesn't exist. Please specify --target or --directory.\n"] 7fe479410240>)'.
I think the key issue here was GRUB failing to install itself.
Did you eventually find out wha was going wrong?
It looks like ‘grub-efi’ was chosen whereas the VM is actually “legacy
BIOS”, not EFI.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-23 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-01 14:52 failure to create disk-image Roy Lemmon
2020-04-01 17:53 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-23 20:21 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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