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Subject: Re: Allow system configuration without a bootloader
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To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>, "guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>

Yes, AFAIR it only works with =E2=80=98init=E2=80=99 and has no effect at=
 all with =E2=80=98reconfigure=E2=80=99.=20

02.01.2020, 00:12, "Julien Lepiller" <julien@lepiller.eu>:
> Le 1 janvier 2020 10:31:08 GMT-05:00, kanichos@yandex.ru a =C3=A9crit :
>> Hello.
>>
>> I am very happy with manually setting up my boot programs. On UEFI
>> systems I don=E2=80=99t use a standalone bootloader at all, because I =
think it
>> is so unnecessary, and rely on Linux =E2=80=98EFI stub=E2=80=99 functi=
onality. I don=E2=80=99t
>> ever want any automatic scripts to intervene.
>>
>> For a couple of years I have used this:
>> (bootloader (grub-configuration (target "/dev/null")))
>> It works, but produces an ugly error during configuration.
>>
>> I believe the field should actually be made optional.
>
> Have tried to use --no-bootloader when reconfiguring?