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From: | Joshua Branson |
Subject: | Re: grub not properly installing in GuixSD |
Date: | Mon, 17 Jul 2017 20:23:54 +0000 |
I do actually have swap devices in the config file. I just didn’t want to re-write the entire config file. :)
That is true. I do have /dev/sda1 tagged as bootable and as esp.
parted p shows
/dev/sda1 flags: boot, esp file system fat32, Size 537MB
And you are seeing that missing parenthesis because my config has a menu-entries to specify that I dual boot.
(bootloader …
….
(menu-entries
(list
(menu-entry
(label “Parabola”)
….
……. ) ;; closing parenthesis for the (bootloader
If I was missing parenthesis, guix would have given me an error when I tried to init the system. So I believe that my parenthesis are in order. :)
Thanks for the speedy response. I’m sure I’ll figure it out eventually.
I suppose that part of the problem could be that /dev/sda1 already has grub installed on it. When I installed Arch linux, it used /dev/sda1 as the partition to install guix. /dev/sda1 is the partition that is flagged as bootable, and right
now it’s configured to load grub then boot Arch linux. If I install grub again on /dev/sda1, will grub be smart enough to load guixSD? It might be wiser to delete- and re-create /dev/sda1. That way guixSD will install on blank slate. The only problem
is, that might break my boot process. If I can get to a boot command line, I know how to boot Parabola. But issues bro. issues.
P.S. If you are interested in learning more about MBR, EFI partition, UEFI, and GPT, then you should take a look at this wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#UEFI_systems
It gives you a good overview.
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