Hey,
Thanks for investigating this! > Thus I’m proposing the fix below. How can I test it though? I get: > > $ ./pre-inst-env guix system image -t efi32-raw > gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl > guix system: error: EFI bootloader required with GPT partitioning I added this check recently because we do not currently support installing the `grub-bootloader` on a non-MBR disk. The way to test your change is to switch the bare-bones system bootloader to `grub-efi-bootloader`, this way: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- diff --git a/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl b/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl index dc6aff5273..e11d4bd5ee 100644 --- a/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl +++ b/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl @@ -18,8 +18,9 @@ ;; target hard disk, and "my-root" is the label of the target ;; root file system. (bootloader (bootloader-configuration - (bootloader grub-bootloader) - (targets '("/dev/sdX")))) + (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader) + (targets '("/boot/efi")))) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- We then have the following error: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- guix system: error: #<gexp (lambda (root . args) (apply initialize-efi32-partition root #:grub-targets #<gexp-input #<gexp (quote ("i386-efi" . "BOOTIA32.EFI")) gnu/system/image.scm:142:28 7fef96f85390>:out> args)) gnu/system/image.scm:146:8 7fef96f85360>: invalid G-expression input --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Mathieu