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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: UEFI cannot find partition after guix system reconfigure
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 23:11:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvytbk47.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871slxww4d.fsf@gmail.com> (Oleg Pykhalov's message of "Fri, 20 Oct 2017 20:46:10 +0300")

Hi,

Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> skribis:

> I had an issue yesterday.  After 'guix system reconfigure' I couldn't
> boot, because there is no a menu entry in UEFI boot menu.
>
> So, I solved this by following Gentoo wiki article¹.
>
> Boot with LiveUSB XUbuntu 16.04.  Any distribution that could boot via
> UEFI and provides efibootmgr app will work.
>
> Create new boot menu entry:
>
>     # efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sda -p 1 -L "GuixSD" -l "\EFI\boot\grubx64.efi"
>
> Check created boot menu entry:
>
>     # efibootmgr -v
>
>
> I have a little question.
>
> Does GuixSD overwrite this boot entry with efibootmgr or similar every
> 'guix system reconfigure'?

‘guix system reconfigure’ simply runs ‘grub-install’, which is supposed
to do the right thing.  I’ve used UEFI on my laptop since before 0.13.0
and it works great.

Did ‘grub-install’ emit a warning when you reconfigured, something about
EFI variables?

HTH,
Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-10-20 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-20 17:46 UEFI cannot find partition after guix system reconfigure Oleg Pykhalov
2017-10-20 21:11 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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