Re: Bootloader trouble during installation

[Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>]

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cinder88@hushmail.com writes:

> Hello again, all. I've been trying to install GuixSD for the first time with no success.

Sorry to hear that!  Hopefully we can help get it fixed.

> The installation process seems to go smoothly, but my machine can't
> detect the installation. Since the installation isn't detected, I
> believe the problem is with the bootloader.

How far along does the bootstrap process get?  Are you receiving an
error message at some point?  If you can provide some more details about
the problem, maybe it will point us towards the right solution.

> For the bootloader, I am attempting to use legacy boot, not UEFI. I
>realize that
> fdisk below identifies /dev/sda2 as an EFI system, but this seems to automatically
> happen when I set boot to on in parted.

The reason that happens is because 'boot' is an alias for 'esp' in the
case of GPT (see: info '(parted) set').  I'm not sure if it's correct to
enable this flag on /dev/sda2, though.  In Guix's system installation
tests, which also use GPT, we enable the 'boot' flag on the bios_grub
partition, which is /dev/sda1 in your case.  Maybe you can try enabling
the 'boot' flag on /dev/sda1 instead?

>   (file-systems (append
>                          (list (file-system
>                            (device "my-root")
>                            (title 'label)
>                            (mount-point "/")
>                            (type "ext4")))
> 		 	(list (file-system
> 			   (device "my-boot")
> 			   (title 'label)
> 			   (mount-point "/boot")
> 			   (type "ext4")))
>                       %base-file-systems))

It might not be related to the issue at hand, but you might want to
double check that the labels of your file systems actually matches
labels you've specified here.  There are many ways to view file system
labels; one convenient way is to run 'blkid' (which is in the util-linux
package).

> Thank you for any and all help,

Happy to assist!

-- 
Chris

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