Hi Ricardo, On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 19:55:58 +0100 Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> wrote:
> “guix system init” fails with a configuration file that specifies > grub-bootloader (not grub-efi-bootloader). > > “grub-install” reports an error about “lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh” > not being available. It suggests passing “--target” or “--device”. > > Our invocation of grub-install does not include a “--target” argument. > Only after I edited it to pass “--target=i386-pc” did “guix system init” > pass. Hmm, I wonder what happened here. We've been very careful to keep grub and grub-efi separate. The entire directory lib/grub/x86_64-efi shouldn't be available in the "grub" package output - and I checked on master, it isn't. Good. So that leaves automatic target selection as the culprit. And indeed, there's a call to grub_install_get_default_x86_platform in util/grub-install.c . And that checks for availability of /sys/firmware/efi and if it exists, defaults to EFI. I think it's a bug in grub to do that for a grub which doesn't have EFI platform support. :P We could just always pass i386-pc in install-grub for i386, but then we lose i386-ieee1275 (which I have never heard anyone using so maybe not so bad). Please report a bug with grub...
