Subject: bug#40496: cannot install bootloader

From: Arne Babenhauserheide <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 22:24:19 +0200

When using

     LANG=C guix system reconfigure -k /etc/config.scm

I receive an error.

I am currently booting off the guix install USB stick, rewiring the disk
in grub, because my bios does not find my system disk.

The error I receive:

building /gnu/store/fyn1cmq9p38ipp5mlbx1z4gs84qd5jg4-install-bootloader.scm.drv...
Backtrace:
           1 (primitive-load "/root/.config/guix/current/bin/guix")
In guix/ui.scm:
  1936:12  0 (run-guix-command _ . _)

guix/ui.scm:1936:12: In procedure run-guix-command:
ERROR:
  1. &message: "'/gnu/store/xlcbi7dc89n4wvyz4jk6j0g4590ymi6q-grub-efi-2.04/sbin/grub-install --boot-directory //boot --bootloader-id=Guix --efi-directory //boot/efi' exited with status 1; output follows:\n\n  /gnu/store/xlcbi7dc89n4wvyz4jk6j0g4590ymi6q-grub-efi-2.04/sbin/grub-install: error: /gnu/store/xlcbi7dc89n4wvyz4jk6j0g4590ymi6q-grub-efi-2.04/lib/grub/i386-pc/modinfo.sh doesn't exist. Please specify --target or --directory.\n"

Best wishes,
Arne
-- 
Unpolitisch sein
heißt politisch sein
ohne es zu merken