Re: Laptop won’t boot after Guix install

[Ian Eure]

Roman Riabenko <roman@riabenko.com> writes:

> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> У пт, 2024-01-05 у 19:41 -0800, Ian Eure пише:
> > ... After the Guix install, 
> > the laptop doesn’t boot -- the firmware shows a boot device 
> > selection menu, rather than bootint into Guix. ...
>
> Sometimes, the installer makes a BIOS-compatible installation 
> which fails to run from UEFI. ... When the firmware supports 
> both options, they are available, and the BIOS installer is 
> usually the default. Another approach is to tweak your firmware 
> settings to disable CMS (Compatibility Support Mode) and other 
> compatibility features so that only the UEFI installer is 
> available and try re-installing Guix to ensure it installs 
> UEFI. Please note that I am neither a developer nor 
> administrator, but just a user who shares experience as I 
> understand it.  ...

I’ve tried with both UEFI+CSM and UEFI-only, and get the same 
unbootable install either way.


> The fix might be as simple as choosing a different USB boot 
> option before running the installer. I typically have two boot 
> options before running the installer from the USB: one is for 
> UEFI, while the other is for BIOS.

I don’t have any option similar to that.

> > Secure boot is disabled in the BIOS.
>
> You might want to try enabling it and see if any other options 
> become
> available in the firmware settings. For example, if I reset my 
> laptop
> firmware, all boot options are usually gone. I need to enable 
> secure
> boot and choose "Select a UEFI file as trusted", which becomes
> available only with secure boot enabled. I can add a path to a 
> ".efi"
> file there.

My BIOS doesn’t have any option like that.  Since the GRUB payload 
from Guix is the only file on the ESP, and is unsigned, I don’t 
think enabling Secure Boot is likely to solve this.