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Re: UEFI cannot find partition after guix system reconfigure
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: UEFI cannot find partition after guix system reconfigure |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Oct 2017 23:11:04 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Oleg Pykhalov <address@hidden> skribis:
> I had an issue yesterday. After 'guix system reconfigure' I couldn't
> boot, because there is no a menu entry in UEFI boot menu.
>
> So, I solved this by following Gentoo wiki article¹.
>
> Boot with LiveUSB XUbuntu 16.04. Any distribution that could boot via
> UEFI and provides efibootmgr app will work.
>
> Create new boot menu entry:
>
> # efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sda -p 1 -L "GuixSD" -l "\EFI\boot\grubx64.efi"
>
> Check created boot menu entry:
>
> # efibootmgr -v
>
>
> I have a little question.
>
> Does GuixSD overwrite this boot entry with efibootmgr or similar every
> 'guix system reconfigure'?
‘guix system reconfigure’ simply runs ‘grub-install’, which is supposed
to do the right thing. I’ve used UEFI on my laptop since before 0.13.0
and it works great.
Did ‘grub-install’ emit a warning when you reconfigured, something about
EFI variables?
HTH,
Ludo’.