Re: grub-install failing while system reconfigure

[Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>]

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Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:

> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
>
>> This happened to me recently. The system wouldn't even boot after
>> that…
>
> My Guix GRUB EFI boot entry is also now gone.  Fortunately, I had
> another GRUB installed with a Guix entry, so I can still get into Guix
> (an older system generation, though).
>
>> It seems the issue is that grub appends some config in bios NV
>> memory, which is separate from your EFI partition, and it filled up.
>>
>> I found two potential solutions: remove the variables (somewhere in
>> /sys I think)
>
> Does anybody know how?
>
>> or enter bios and factory-reset it.
>
> What are the consequences of that?  I'm afraid.  Would it make the still
> existing EFI boot entries go missing?
>

It did it, thanks!!!

>> After that, guix
>> won't boot, so I had to use an installation disk and follow "entering
>> a chroot" from the manual to reconfigure the system and finally
>> boot.
>
> I think I don't have a Guix image.  Would a Trisquel image do?  (I guess
> yes.)
>
>> Grub now looks funny, but it worked :)
>
> I don't care about GRUB's look, I just need to get into Guix.
>
>>
>> Le 15 janvier 2023 07:03:06 GMT+01:00, Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> a écrit :
>>>
>>>grub-install is saying no space left, but I still have much space
>>>available in both root and EFI partition.
>>>
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>>>akib@gnu-guix:~/dotfiles$ sudo guix system reconfigure ~/dotfiles/guix/system-config.scm
>>>The following derivation will be built:
>>>  /gnu/store/ss6c3krd1wwbg7kybdr8pkrl7jy3cc79-grub.cfg.drv
>>>
>>>building /gnu/store/ss6c3krd1wwbg7kybdr8pkrl7jy3cc79-grub.cfg.drv...
>>>/gnu/store/i3bl3mpy92hwm6v1n74slvyvlgnpg85g-system
>>>/gnu/store/hhm7spb2xdd6i5ci8p6wjs9dalv9g18a-grub.cfg
>>>
>>>activating system...
>>>making '/gnu/store/i3bl3mpy92hwm6v1n74slvyvlgnpg85g-system' the current system...
>>>setting up setuid programs in '/run/setuid-programs'...
>>>populating /etc from /gnu/store/dkr38kkqiykn86qxmqq0vmd86kf8v7qr-etc...
>>>The following derivation will be built:
>>>  /gnu/store/77k62g58nhi9kaxfryfa3b54a9i53gd6-install-bootloader.scm.drv
>>>
>>>building /gnu/store/77k62g58nhi9kaxfryfa3b54a9i53gd6-install-bootloader.scm.drv...
>>>guix system: error:
>>> '/gnu/store/ch9q9w5zbvgq8srr6dscq6hdf03pfqb4-grub-efi-2.06/sbin/grub-install
>>> --boot-directory //boot --bootloader-id=Guix --efi-directory
>>> //boot/efi' exited with status 1; output follows:
>>>
>>>  Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
>>>  Could not prepare Boot variable: No space left on device
>>>  /gnu/store/ch9q9w5zbvgq8srr6dscq6hdf03pfqb4-grub-efi-2.06/sbin/grub-install: error: efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: Input/output error.
>>>
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>>>
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