From: Christophe Pisteur <christophe.pisteur@fsfe.org>
To: Roman Riabenko <roman@riabenko.com>
Cc: help guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Could not prepare Boot variable
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:15:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c3e2be55b3edb324458d08e4a91a08c7a67d5ff4.camel@fsfe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250109220517.f5b53504945220251dab649e@riabenko.com>
Hello Roman,
Thank you very much for your help.
Le jeudi 09 janvier 2025 à 22:05 +0200, Roman Riabenko a écrit :
> Hello Christophe
> >
> > I also had this issue recently. The device here is not the boot
> partition. Instead, the device here is the EFI itself.
Ah ok
>
> Check whether you have any files begninning with "dump"
> in /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/
>
> Those are dump files saved by the pstore kernel module. They should
> be
> safe to remove. Removing them frees up space for a new boot variable.
I have 218 (!) files begninning with "dump": do I delete them all
without distinction?
>
> I do not recommend rebooting until you complete the failed system
> reconfiguration. Otherwise, the boot may fail. GRUB did not show up
> for me at all.
Ok , Thanks for the advice!
Kind Regards
Christophe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-09 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-09 19:01 Could not prepare Boot variable Christophe Pisteur
2025-01-09 19:19 ` Felix Lechner via
2025-01-09 19:33 ` Christophe Pisteur
2025-01-09 19:38 ` Felix Lechner via
2025-01-09 20:04 ` Christophe Pisteur
2025-01-09 20:05 ` Roman Riabenko via
2025-01-09 20:15 ` Christophe Pisteur [this message]
2025-01-09 20:24 ` Roman Riabenko via
2025-01-09 20:42 ` Christophe Pisteur
2025-01-09 20:49 ` Roman Riabenko via
2025-01-09 21:10 ` Christophe Pisteur
2025-01-09 21:34 ` Roman Riabenko via
2025-01-09 22:04 ` Christophe Pisteur
2025-01-09 22:34 ` Roman Riabenko via
2025-01-09 20:16 ` Felix Lechner via
2025-01-09 20:35 ` Roman Riabenko via
2025-01-09 21:45 ` Felix Lechner via
2025-01-10 13:51 ` Roman Riabenko via
2025-01-12 13:33 ` Roman Riabenko via
2025-01-13 17:43 ` Christophe Pisteur
2025-01-13 20:01 ` Roman Riabenko via
2025-01-21 18:58 ` Leo Famulari
2025-01-21 20:17 ` Roman Riabenko via
2025-01-21 20:26 ` Leo Famulari
2025-01-22 7:18 ` Roman Riabenko via
2025-01-22 8:06 ` Efraim Flashner
2025-01-22 20:49 ` Felix Lechner via
2025-01-24 16:18 ` Roman Riabenko via
2025-01-10 16:53 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2025-01-10 17:22 ` Felix Lechner via
2025-01-11 10:26 ` Roman Riabenko via
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