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Re: How to reinstall the bootloader without guix system reconfigure?


From: Akib Azmain Turja
Subject: Re: How to reinstall the bootloader without guix system reconfigure?
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 23:30:35 +0600

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Guix System reinstalls GRUB every time for convenience, but there's no need 
> to run 'guix' just to fix GRUB.  
>
> You can reinstall it by hand if you know what you're doing, using GRUB's 
> grub-install command.  It doesn't even matter which distribution's GRUB you 
> use, as long as it's not ancient.  Guix's GRUB does not carry Guix-specific 
> patches.
>
> What does matter very much is whether you use the UEFI or non-UEFI version.  
> Can you share your operating-system's (bootloader ...) snippet?
>
> Form this distance, I can't tell you why one GRUB broke & the other one 
> didn't.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> T G-R
>
> Sent on the go.  Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Thanks, it just worked.

I'm using EFI, here's the bootloader declaration:

(bootloader-configuration
 (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)
 (targets '("/boot/efi"))
 (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout))

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