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Re: How to reinstall the bootloader without guix system reconfigure?
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Akib Azmain Turja |
Subject: |
Re: How to reinstall the bootloader without guix system reconfigure? |
Date: |
Fri, 01 Jul 2022 23:32:05 +0600 |
Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:
> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Guix System reinstalls GRUB every time for convenience, but there's no need
>> to run 'guix' just to fix GRUB.
>>
>> You can reinstall it by hand if you know what you're doing, using GRUB's
>> grub-install command. It doesn't even matter which distribution's GRUB you
>> use, as long as it's not ancient. Guix's GRUB does not carry Guix-specific
>> patches.
>>
>> What does matter very much is whether you use the UEFI or non-UEFI version.
>> Can you share your operating-system's (bootloader ...) snippet?
>>
>> Form this distance, I can't tell you why one GRUB broke & the other one
>> didn't.
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> T G-R
>>
>> Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.
>
> Thanks, it just worked.
>
> I'm using EFI, here's the bootloader declaration:
>
> (bootloader-configuration
> (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)
> (targets '("/boot/efi"))
> (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout))
>
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> Akib Azmain Turja
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Oh yes, it installed under the name "grub", but I just renamed the
directory to Guix.
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