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Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add grub-efi.


From: Chris Marusich
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] gnu: Add grub-efi.
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 08:16:30 -0800
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address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Howdy!
>
> There I typed at the GRUB command prompt:
>
>   insmod efi_gop
>   insmod efi_uga
>   cat /var/guix/gcroots/grub.cfg

Slightly off-topic question: how does one find out what the possible
values for X are in a command like "insmod X"?  I've searched before and
I couldn't find a list in the manual, so I presume it's something you
have to "just know" at runtime, somehow.

> and typed the ‘search.file’, ‘linux’, and ‘initrd’ that appear
> ‘grub.cfg’ (“source /…/grub.cfg” did not work.)
>
> That actually booted GuixSD.  This time it had /sys/firmware/efi.  Thus
> I re-run ‘grub-install’ from there and upon reboot, the thing would
> immediately boot GRUB!  \o/
>
> I still need to sort out a few shenanigans but I’m getting there.

Sweet!  I've been tentatively following this thread; glad to see you're
making progress.

-- 
Chris

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