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bug#40496: cannot install bootloader
From: |
Arne Babenhauserheide |
Subject: |
bug#40496: cannot install bootloader |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Apr 2020 22:33:42 +0200 |
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Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:
> Arne Babenhauserheide <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I hope you are able to recover your system. If the problem is "just"
>>> that the boot entry is missing,
>>
>> Do you mean in grub?
>
> I mean in the firmware boot menu. The way UEFI works is that
> bootloaders update the firmware directly with a name, EFI System
> Partition, and executable (most likely "/EFI/Guix/grubx64.efi").
Ah, I did not know that. Thank you!
>>> you should be able to create a new one
>>> with "efibootmgr --create" manually. Here is a typical entry with the
>>> EFI System Partition as the first partition of a disk:
>>>
>>> # efibootmgr -v
>>> BootCurrent: 0000
>>> Timeout: 1 seconds
>>> BootOrder: 0000,0002
>>> Boot0000* Guix
>>> HD(1,GPT,32944052-6012-4cda-b270-fe653d430c84,0x800,0x4800)/File(\EFI\Guix\grubx64.efi)
>>
>> When I run efibootmgr -v, I get an error:
>> $ efibootmgr -v
>> EFI variables are not supported on this system.
>
> This also requires booting in "EFI mode" so that /sys/firmware/efi is
> present. The live USB image supports EFI, but you may need to disable
> "legacy boot" to make it boot in EFI mode.
I’ll try that.
>>> 1 is the partition number, and the UUID is the same as 'lsblk -o
>>> PARTUUID /dev/sda1' assuming your disk is /dev/sda. I don't remember
>>> what 0x800 and 0x4800 means, but don't think they are required.
>>
>> I get somewhat too little information from that:
>>
>> $ lsblk -O /dev/nvme1n1p1
>> NAME KNAME PATH MAJ:MIN FSAVAIL FSSIZE FSTYPE FSUSED FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT LABEL
>> UUID PTUUID PTTYPE PARTTYPE PARTLABEL PARTUUID PARTFLAGS RA RO RM HOTPLUG
>> MODEL SERIAL SIZE STATE OWNER GROUP MODE ALIGNMENT MIN-IO OPT-IO
>> PHY-SEC LOG-SEC ROTA SCHED RQ-SIZE TYPE DISC-ALN DISC-GRAN DISC-MAX
>> DISC-ZERO WSAME WWN RAND PKNAME HCTL TRAN SUBSYSTEMS REV VENDOR ZONED
>> nvme1n1p1
>> nvme1n1p1
>> /dev/nvme1n1p1
>> 259:2 15,4G 884,9G 824,5G 93% /home
>> 128 0 0 0
>> 900G root disk brw-rw---- 0 512 0
>> 512 512 0 none 1023 part 0 512B 2T 0
>> 0B 0 nvme block:nvme:pci
>
> You probably need to use "sudo" to read the PARTUUID.
Ah, yes, that works! Thank you!
> HTH,
> Marius
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bug#40496: cannot install bootloader, Ludovic Courtès, 2020/04/07