On 16 September 2014 21:11, James Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > After updating from approximately 9cbc2165 (Aug 23) to b079eef31 (Sep > 16), instead of booting, my system gave the error message in the > subject. It seems the same as > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977 and I > fixed it with the same solution (booting from a USB stick, sudo > grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/<sth>/boot /dev/sdX). > > I haven't seen this problem when updating in the past, so I am > guessing it is a bug. Maybe we should wait and see if anyone else > sees it before devoting any energy to it though; in any case, it is > fixed for me for now. (I'm not sure how to go about debugging it, but > I'll send another e-mail if I see the same problem again next time I > update.) > > James
Okay, it looks like this was caused by /dev/sda and /dev/sdb changing places. I guess I should be doing it by UUID or something. (I found the following errors at the end of nixos-rebuild's output; I guess I missed them before.) /nix/store/wkmf1mhwkjspdr1myhyalgyc7882q1k7-grub-2.02-git-1de3a4/sbin/grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible. /nix/store/wkmf1mhwkjspdr1myhyalgyc7882q1k7-grub-2.02-git-1de3a4/sbin/grub-install: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for cross-disk install. /nix/store/pmashz5671fadjfyxaxf6r0bcz5839m4-install-grub.pl: installation of GRUB on /dev/sda failed warning: error(s) occured while switching to the new configuration James _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
