November 29, 2021 12:33 AM, "Rodrigo Morales" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Table of Contents > _________________ > > 1. Introduction > 2. Attempts > .. 1. First attempt > .. 2. Second attempt > 3. Additional information > 4. External links > > 1 Introduction > ============== > > I've tried to perform the system installation [1] twice in a laptop > with no avail. What kind of laptop are you trying to install Guix System on? You could try to use the manual install as described in the manual. I occasionally have to use that instead of the graphical install. > I'm using the ISO whose URL is [3] and is mentioned in [2] and whose > SHA512 is [12]. > > Any help to solve this issue is appreciated. > > 2 Attempts > ========== > > 2.1 First attempt > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > In this attempt, I used the terminal based graphical interface. The > final result was that when booting, my laptop showed the GRUB shell. > > This was probably caused because I had Ubuntu installed and I didn't > format the EFI partition (i.e. I didn't change the default option "No" > of "Format the partition?" [4]). In this attempt, I used this > partition configuration [5]. > > The congratulations screen [8] was shown and these messages [9] were > shown for a short time before the laptop started the reboot after the > installation. > > 2.2 Second attempt > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > In this attempt, I used the terminal based graphical interface and the > same partition configuration [5]. The final result was that when > booting, my laptop showed "Operating System Not Found" [7]. > > This time I answered "Yes" to "Format the partition?" [6] in the EFI > partition at the partition configuration step. > > The congratulations screen [8] was shown and these messages [10] were > shown for a short time before the laptop started the reboot after the > installation. > > 3 Additional information > ======================== > > The following is the configuration of my BIOS [11]. As you can see, > the "Boot Mode" is set to "UEFI". > > 4 External links > ================ > > [1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/System-Installation.html > [2] > https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/USB-Stick-and-DVD-Installation.html > [3] > https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.3.0.x86_64-linux.iso > [4] > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Partition_configuration_in_GNU_Guix_installer.jpg > [5] > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Answer_no_to_format_EFI_partition_in_GNU_Guix.jpg > [6] > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yes_to_format_EFI_partition_in_GNU_Guix_installer.jpg > [7] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Operating_System_Not_Found.jpg > [8] > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Congratulations_screen_shown_by_GNU_Guix_wizard_installer.jp > > [9] > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messages_shown_after_succesful_installation_in_GNU_Guix.jpg > [10] > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messages_shown_after_succesful_installation_in_GNU_Guix_2.jp > > [11] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BIOS_in_laptop.jpg > [12] > 6b867323d45638d38a1355d9ad249d680df3b3aef216c0cd5a0b67c1dc445efec33ba3392801fab0c89b008af27de2fb1a16 > 36e6e94859afd353bfd1fd49188
