GNU bug report logs - #35380
disk-image fails to install efi grub

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Package: guix;

Reported by: rendaw <7e9wc56emjakcm <at> s.rendaw.me>

Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:07:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 0.16.0

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: rendaw <7e9wc56emjakcm <at> s.rendaw.me>
Cc: 35380-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35380: disk-image fails to install efi grub
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 10:44:29 +0200

Hi rendaw,

rendaw <7e9wc56emjakcm <at> s.rendaw.me> skribis:

> Bug 2: So is it appears disk-image won't build with an EFI bootloader.
> I'm guessing that qemu is run with a bios boot image here, which is why
> grub's using i386-pc.

Exactly: currently QEMU is run with a plain old BIOS, and not with the
UEFI firmware, so what you want is not implemented yet (see the comment
in gnu/system/vm.scm:799).

I’m closing this bug, but you can open a wishlist item about it if you
want!

Thanks,
Ludo’.
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