From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: znavko@disroot.org Subject: bug#36262: cannot install bootloader to root partition Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 17:11:42 +0000 Message-ID: <8ac8087c445d45599bb0c00d018242b5@disroot.org> References: <87zhmgw35r.fsf@nckx> <5465f5ee143f556ff0c11c11cdd54cc1@disroot.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39157) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hcvAs-0000yr-31 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 13:12:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hcvAp-0006Xn-NS for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 13:12:06 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57919) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hcvAo-0006To-DM for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 13:12:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hcvAo-0005Ps-3j for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 13:12:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87zhmgw35r.fsf@nckx> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Cc: 36262@debbugs.gnu.org I have another laptop (Lenovo G50-30) where Guix works on this partition = layout I've made manually:=0A=0A# fdisk -l /dev/sda=0A...=0ADevice Bo= ot Start End Sectors Size Id Type=0A/dev/sda1 20= 48 230000000 229997953 109.7G 83 Linux=0A/dev/sda2 230000640 234441= 647 4441008 2.1G 82 Linux swap / Solaris=0A=0A=0ABut all the new inst= allations on other two notebooks with the same layout do not work.=0A=0A= =0AJune 17, 2019 5:07 PM, "Tobias Geerinckx-Rice" wrote:= =0A=0A> Znavko,=0A> =0A> znavko@disroot.org wrote:=0A> =0A>> bug#36262: c= annot install bootloader to root partition=0A> =0A> Installing GRUB to yo= ur root partition isn't supported, and should=0A> never be necessary anyw= ay.=0A> =0A>> Hello! I was not able to install Guix having 2 partitions:= =0A>> /dev/sda1 ext4 Linux filesystem=0A>> /dev/sda2 Linux Swap=0A> =0A> = This is a strange partition layout; it's missing a =E2=80=98BIOS boot=0A>= partition=E2=80=99 and can never work without forcing GRUB to do somethi= ng=0A> it doesn't like to do.=0A> =0A> Did you create this layout manuall= y? If so, why?=0A> =0A> Kind regards,=0A> =0A> T G-R