Re: Lenovo ThinkCentre: 1962 No Operating System Found

[Julian Flake]

Hello,

you wrote:

> [liveuser@localhost-live ~]$ sudo efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sda1 -p 
> 1 -L "Guix" -l "\EFI\Guix\grubx64.efi"

Shouldn't your disk be /dev/sda (in contrast to /dev/sda1)?

Best Regards,
Julian Flake

On Wed, Nov 15 2023, Caleb Herbert wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I just installed Guix and the installed system won't boot.
>
> I've looked for solutions to this issue online. Some people 
> recommend
> just turning on/off CSM in the UEFI settings. Others suggest 
> using
> efibootmgr to create a new entry for the OS. I've done both, and 
> have
> had no luck.
>
> Also, it would be nice if Guix System had efibootmgr. I had to 
> boot
> another distro to get it.
>
> Notice how the Fedora entry (which works) looks the same as the 
> Guix
> entry, and how I tried pointing it to the right EFI file:
> /dev/sda1:/EFI/Guix/grubx64.efi. Nevertheless, Guix does not 
> boot.
>
> I installed Guix using the wizard. I used disk encryption.
>
> I also tried booting the installed system manually, from the
> installer's copy of GRUB (pressing "c" before the system 
> boots). When
> I did "cryptomount -a" at the GRUB prompt, no password prompt 
> was
> given. It just said "unknown filesystem" and I could not access 
> the
> encrypted partition. The EFI partition was accessible, but there 
> was
> no kernel to point to, so I could not boot the system by typing 
> in
> GRUB commands.
>
> I hope this has been enough information. Please tell me if there 
> is
> anything else I can do to help.
>
> Good night.
>
> [liveuser@localhost-live ~]$ efibootmgr
> BootCurrent: 0002
> Timeout: 1 seconds
> BootOrder: 0002,0003,0004,0005,0001,0000
> Boot0000* Guix 
> VenHw(99e275e7-75a0-4b37-a2e6-c5385e6c00cb)
> Boot0001* Fedora 
> VenHw(99e275e7-75a0-4b37-a2e6-c5385e6c00cb)
> Boot0002* PLDS DVD-RW DH16ACSH  BBS(CDROM,,0x0)AMBO
> Boot0003* ST31000524AS  BBS(HD,,0x0)AMBO
> Boot0004* Lexar USB Flash Drive 8.07    BBS(HD,,0x0)AMBO
> Boot0005* UEFI: Lexar USB Flash Drive 8.07 
> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1d,0x0)/USB(1,0)/USB(2,0)/HD(2,GPT,596bfe18-6cfc-4880-ba96-298703c7c362,0x3e31d0,0x5d24)AMBO
> [liveuser@localhost-live ~]$
>
> [liveuser@localhost-live ~]$ efibootmgr -v
> BootCurrent: 0002
> Timeout: 1 seconds
> BootOrder: 0002,0003,0004,0005,0001,0000
> Boot0000* Guix 
> VenHw(99e275e7-75a0-4b37-a2e6-c5385e6c00cb)
>       dp: 01 04 14 00 e7 75 e2 99 a0 75 37 4b a2 e6 c5 38 5e 6c 
>       00 cb / 7f ff 04 00
> Boot0001* Fedora 
> VenHw(99e275e7-75a0-4b37-a2e6-c5385e6c00cb)
>       dp: 01 04 14 00 e7 75 e2 99 a0 75 37 4b a2 e6 c5 38 5e 6c 
>       00 cb / 7f ff 04 00
> Boot0002* PLDS DVD-RW DH16ACSH  BBS(CDROM,,0x0)AMBO
>       dp: 05 01 09 00 03 00 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
>     data: 41 4d 42 4f
> Boot0003* ST31000524AS  BBS(HD,,0x0)AMBO
>       dp: 05 01 09 00 02 00 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
>     data: 41 4d 42 4f
> Boot0004* Lexar USB Flash Drive 8.07    BBS(HD,,0x0)AMBO
>       dp: 05 01 09 00 02 00 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
>     data: 41 4d 42 4f
> Boot0005* UEFI: Lexar USB Flash Drive 8.07 
> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1d,0x0)/USB(1,0)/USB(2,0)/HD(2,GPT,596bfe18-6cfc-4880-ba96-298703c7c362,0x3e31d0,0x5d24)AMBO
>       dp: 02 01 0c 00 d0 41 03 0a 00 00 00 00 / 01 01 06 00 00 
>       1d / 03 05 06 00 01 00 / 03 05 06 00 02 00 / 04 01 2a 00 
>       02 00 00 00 d0 31 3e 00 00 00 00 00 24 5d 00 00 00 00 00 
>       00 18 fe 6b 59 fc 6c 80 48 ba 96 29 87 03 c7 c3 62 02 02 / 
>       7f ff 04 00
>     data: 41 4d 42 4f
> [liveuser@localhost-live ~]$
>
> [liveuser@localhost-live ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
> [liveuser@localhost-live ~]$ ls /mnt
> EFI
> [liveuser@localhost-live ~]$ tree /mnt
> /mnt
> └── EFI
>     └── Guix
>         └── grubx64.efi
>
> 3 directories, 1 file
> [liveuser@localhost-live ~]$
>
> [liveuser@localhost-live ~]$ sudo efibootmgr -Bb 0000
> BootCurrent: 0002
> Timeout: 1 seconds
> BootOrder: 0002,0003,0004,0005,0001
> Boot0001* Fedora 
> VenHw(99e275e7-75a0-4b37-a2e6-c5385e6c00cb)
> Boot0002* PLDS DVD-RW DH16ACSH  BBS(CDROM,,0x0)AMBO
> Boot0003* ST31000524AS  BBS(HD,,0x0)AMBO
> Boot0004* Lexar USB Flash Drive 8.07    BBS(HD,,0x0)AMBO
> Boot0005* UEFI: Lexar USB Flash Drive 8.07 
> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1d,0x0)/USB(1,0)/USB(2,0)/HD(2,GPT,596bfe18-6cfc-4880-ba96-298703c7c362,0x3e31d0,0x5d24)AMBO
> [liveuser@localhost-live ~]$ sudo efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sda1 -p 
> 1 -L "Guix" -l "\EFI\Guix\grubx64.efi"
> BootCurrent: 0002
> Timeout: 1 seconds
> BootOrder: 0000,0002,0003,0004,0005,0001
> Boot0001* Fedora 
> VenHw(99e275e7-75a0-4b37-a2e6-c5385e6c00cb)
> Boot0002* PLDS DVD-RW DH16ACSH  BBS(CDROM,,0x0)AMBO
> Boot0003* ST31000524AS  BBS(HD,,0x0)AMBO
> Boot0004* Lexar USB Flash Drive 8.07    BBS(HD,,0x0)AMBO
> Boot0005* UEFI: Lexar USB Flash Drive 8.07 
> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1d,0x0)/USB(1,0)/USB(2,0)/HD(2,GPT,596bfe18-6cfc-4880-ba96-298703c7c362,0x3e31d0,0x5d24)AMBO
> Boot0000* Guix 
> HD(1,GPT,ec237a79-478c-4c07-b1d2-cefdbcc56b02,0x800,0x12c000)/File(\EFI\Guix\grubx64.efi)
> [liveuser@localhost-live ~]$