Re: Laptop won’t boot after Guix install

[Ian Eure]

Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:

> Hi Ian,
>
> Something similar happened to me before. After reconfiguring a 
> lot of
> times, the firmaware had no space left for EFI variables. I 
> didn't
> notice the error message at first because guix system did
> succeed. Maybe you have some similar errors that don't lead to a
> failure? What does the last phase say, when installing the 
> bootloader?

Thank you for the suggestion.  I’ve run into this problem before 
as well, on different hardware.  I didn’t see any message to this 
effect during the install, or during subsequent `guix system 
reconfigure' invocations, which do seem to update the bootloader. 
Does `guix system init' do more than that?

I did look around the EFI variables, but there are a bajillion of 
them and I have no idea what any of them mean, or which may be 
safe to remove.  I figured resetting all my BIOS settings would 
clear those out.