From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
To: Martin Castillo <castilma@uni-bremen.de>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Create new EFI guixSD installaton from existing bios guixsd installation
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:06:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220217140547.nhhscffe62e4oetr@pelzflorian.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62567e4e-795f-8606-60b9-f6f5fa8190ac@uni-bremen.de>
On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 01:40:19AM +0100, Martin Castillo wrote:
> Or can you only create an EFI system installation when you're already
> running on one?
Sadly yes, because for EFI the boot information is not stored on disk
but on the motherboard NVRAM. You need to boot with EFI to access it.
Except for installs on removable media, but grub-efi-bootloader does
not do that in Guix except for images.
Regards,
Florian
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2022-02-17 0:40 Create new EFI guixSD installaton from existing bios guixsd installation Martin Castillo
2022-02-17 13:33 ` Martin Castillo
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2022-02-17 0:03 Martin Castillo
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