From: rendaw <7e9wc56emjakcm@s.rendaw.me>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 35380-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35380: disk-image fails to install efi grub
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 19:27:14 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <323096f6-9382-c3fd-1dc5-486c4737b12f@s.rendaw.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a7gesccy.fsf@gnu.org>
On 4/25/19 5:44 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi rendaw,
>
> rendaw <7e9wc56emjakcm@s.rendaw.me> skribis:
>
>> Bug 2: So is it appears disk-image won't build with an EFI bootloader.
>> I'm guessing that qemu is run with a bios boot image here, which is why
>> grub's using i386-pc.
> Exactly: currently QEMU is run with a plain old BIOS, and not with the
> UEFI firmware, so what you want is not implemented yet (see the comment
> in gnu/system/vm.scm:799).
>
> I’m closing this bug, but you can open a wishlist item about it if you
> want!
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
I'm not going to comment on the wishlist thing, but this seems like a
fairly huge problem:
1. The documentation doesn't mention this anywhere! Not in the
bootloader docs, not in the disk-image docs, not in the "limitations",
not in "hardware considerations"
2. I've spent several _days_ now digging through Guix source code and
never found that message.
3. The build still completes with a successful exit code. The only way
to find out the image doesn't have a bootloader (-> is unusable) is to
try to boot it
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-25 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-22 16:06 bug#35380: disk-image fails to install efi grub rendaw
[not found] ` <handler.35380.B.155594918611499.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2019-04-22 17:11 ` bug#35380: Acknowledgement (disk-image fails to install efi grub) rendaw
2019-04-25 8:44 ` bug#35380: disk-image fails to install efi grub Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-25 10:27 ` rendaw [this message]
2019-05-01 20:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-02 9:05 ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-05-02 15:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-02 22:17 ` Marius Bakke
2019-05-03 13:18 ` rendaw
2019-05-03 15:10 ` Marius Bakke
2019-05-04 3:42 ` rendaw
2019-05-04 14:34 ` Marius Bakke
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