GNU bug report logs - #26815
[PATCH 0/3] Hybrid UEFI disk image

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>

Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 14:36:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: patch

Done: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 26815 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26815: [PATCH 3/3] vm: Support EFI boot in base image.
Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 11:06:28 +0200
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Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com> writes:

> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> writes:
>
>> Hi Marius,
>>
>>> +      (system* "grub-mkstandalone" "-O" "x86_64-efi" "-o"
>>> +               (string-append efi-directory "/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI")
>>> +               ;; Embed the contents of grubdisk.cfg.
>>> +               (string-append "boot/grub/grub.cfg=" target
>>> +                              "/tmp/grubdisk.cfg"))
>>
>> Check return value of system* ?
>
> I rewrote most of this to be (hopefully) more understandable. Also, some
> rudimentary steps towards other platforms, native testing required.
>
> V2 attached.

...and here is V3, now with compliant file names for all supported
arches from the UEFI specification. Will test i386 later today.

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