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bug#67109: ‘efi32-esp’ image support pulls in host-side code
From: |
Mathieu Othacehe |
Subject: |
bug#67109: ‘efi32-esp’ image support pulls in host-side code |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Nov 2023 21:52:35 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Hey,
Thanks for investigating this!
> Thus I’m proposing the fix below. How can I test it though? I get:
>
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix system image -t efi32-raw
> gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl
> guix system: error: EFI bootloader required with GPT partitioning
I added this check recently because we do not currently support
installing the `grub-bootloader` on a non-MBR disk.
The way to test your change is to switch the bare-bones system
bootloader to `grub-efi-bootloader`, this way:
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diff --git a/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl
b/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl
index dc6aff5273..e11d4bd5ee 100644
--- a/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl
+++ b/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl
@@ -18,8 +18,9 @@
;; target hard disk, and "my-root" is the label of the target
;; root file system.
(bootloader (bootloader-configuration
- (bootloader grub-bootloader)
- (targets '("/dev/sdX"))))
+ (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)
+ (targets '("/boot/efi"))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
We then have the following error:
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guix system: error: #<gexp (lambda (root . args) (apply
initialize-efi32-partition root #:grub-targets #<gexp-input #<gexp (quote
("i386-efi" . "BOOTIA32.EFI")) gnu/system/image.scm:142:28 7fef96f85390>:out>
args)) gnu/system/image.scm:146:8 7fef96f85360>: invalid G-expression input
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Mathieu