From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Jan <tona_kosmicznego_smiecia@interia.pl>,
Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Installing Guix System on an external hard drive
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:49:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bltdgpos.fsf@devup.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191113201538.29973b27@kompiuter>
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Jan <tona_kosmicznego_smiecia@interia.pl> writes:
> Tried this, but didn't work, also tried mounting the partition at
> "/boot/efi" and installing bootloader at "/boot". I'm installing Guix
> form a not-UEFI machine, could this cause the problem?
Did you get the same error when you mounted at /boot/efi?
If you want the USB drive to be 'portable', i.e. not tied to a single
system, you can not use 'grub-efi-bootloader'. The reason is that
grub-efi relies on updating UEFI firmware variables *on the running
system*, to make the newly installed bootloader show up in the UEFI boot
menu.
For the same reason, it is not possible to use it on a non-UEFI system.
It would be good to have a 'grub-standalone-bootloader' procedure that
would write a self-contained UEFI firmware executable to a standard
location, similar to what Guix does for disk images:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/build/vm.scm?id=4dcf32b56b824efcdb181c9f4cc7ee6c8a0ba125#n399
Would you like to try implementing it?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-15 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-12 22:25 Installing Guix System on an external hard drive Jan Wielkiewicz
2019-11-13 6:53 ` Efraim Flashner
2019-11-13 15:28 ` Jan
2019-11-13 19:15 ` Jan
2019-11-13 19:55 ` Efraim Flashner
2019-11-15 14:49 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2019-11-15 16:23 ` Jan
2019-11-19 23:14 ` Marius Bakke
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