GNU bug report logs - #64593
‘guix system image’ fails to create image while invoking ‘grub-bios-setup’

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>

Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 09:34:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #38 received at 64593 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>
Cc: 64593 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Yann Dupont <yann.dupont <at> univ-nantes.fr>,
 Sergey Trofimov <sarg <at> sarg.org.ru>, debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#64593: ‘guix system image’ fails to create image while
 invoking ‘grub-bios-setup’
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2023 11:02:01 +0200

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Hi everyone,

Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr> writes:

> I guess my confusion stems from the fact that the default image type
> changed to EFI recently (right?).

No, the image type had always been efi-raw iirc, just that efi images
now use GPT partitioning, and BIOS booting on GPT drives need an extra
BIOS partition to store the bootloader which used to be stored in empty
space after the MBR headers.  There really wasn't anything EFI at all
about the efi image type before though imo…

Best,
-- 
Josselin Poiret

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