GNU bug report logs - #30311
efi-less grub install fails

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus <at> mdc-berlin.de>

Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:57:02 UTC

Severity: important

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>, Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus <at> mdc-berlin.de>, 30311 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30311: efi-less grub install fails
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 22:40:35 +0100

Hi Danny,

>> This change breaks my mips64el-linux GuixSD system, which is supported
>> by GRUB, but where "--target=i386-pc" is obviously not appropriate.  On
>> my system I need a different 'target' setting.
>
> A pretty safe workaround is to substitute /sys/firmware/efi by /sys/firmware/non-efi
> in ./grub-core/osdep/linux/platform.c for non-efi grub.

I don’t understand this patch.  How does it work?

What is the effect of replacing /sys/firmware/efi with
/sys/firmware/non-efi?

-- 
Ricardo

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