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Subject: Re: failure to create disk-image
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:21:16 +0200
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To: Roy Lemmon <roy@roylemmon.com>
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Hi Roy,

Roy Lemmon <roy@roylemmon.com> skribis:

> installing bootloader...
> Backtrace:
>            1 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/abqhniaagz11v7w8kz83ha1s6fc=E2=
=80=A6")
> In ./gnu/build/vm.scm:
>     590:6  0 (initialize-hard-disk "/dev/vda" #:bootloader-package _ =E2=
=80=A6)
>
> ./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-ins=
tall
> --boot-directory /fs/boot --bootloader-id=3DGuix --efi-directory /fs/dev/=
vda'
> exited with status 1; output follows:\n\n
>  /gnu/store/xlcbi7dc89n4wvyz4jk6j0g4590ymi6q-grub-efi-2.04/sbin/grub-inst=
all:
> error:
> /gnu/store/xlcbi7dc89n4wvyz4jk6j0g4590ymi6q-grub-efi-2.04/lib/grub/i386-p=
c/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 =E2=80=98grub-efi=E2=80=99 was chosen whereas the VM is actua=
lly =E2=80=9Clegacy
BIOS=E2=80=9D, not EFI.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.