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[installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
Subject: bug#47889: closed (Re: bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install
 efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk)
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 13:55:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 47889 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 47889-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Florian Pelz <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
Subject: Re: bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting
 canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 15:54:23 +0200

Hello,

> Regarding the MSDOS/UEFI patch, it is almost identical to what Florian
> tested. I chose not to force GPT on UEFI if the user disk is already
> MBR formatted, mostly to keep the code readable.

Pushed on master and cherry-picked on version-1.3.0 branch.

Thanks,

Mathieu

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From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to
 /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:29:54 +0200

When installing from the Guix install image, grub-install fails on my
x86_64 ASRock Beebox PC:

guix system: error: '/gnu/store/hsc3gsqbxkl64nx38sf2fgs2fxzbpr0i-grub-efi-2.04/sbin/grub-install --boot-directory /mnt/boot --bootloader-id=Guix --efi-directory /boot/efi' exited with status 1; output follows:

 Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
 /gnu/store/hsc3gsqbxkl64nx38sf2fgs2fxzbpr0i-grub-efi-2.04/sbin/grub-install: error: failed to get canonical path of `/boot/efi'.

I let the Guix installer (git master commit
fef2f08bc640f78cc0a86fc7be3eccbc07b5e98c) auto-partition my entire
disk without encryption.

“fdisk -l /dev/sda” shows:

Disk /dev/sda: 238.49 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors
[…]
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xd0416d83

Device     Boot   Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1          2048   7811071   7009024   3.7G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2  *    7011072 500117583 492306432 234.8G 83 Linux

Regards,
Florian

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