Re: Guix under QEMU on Aarch64?

[Zack Weinberg]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2024, at 10:18 AM, Marek Paśnikowski wrote:
> James Geddes <james@jamesgeddes.org> writes:
>> ```
>> # guix system image --image-type=qcow2 config.scm
>> guix system: error: EFI bootloader required with GPT partitioning
>> ```
>
> I had a look at your config and my first thought is that the error
> message is a poorly worded version of one of the following:
>
> 1. You must use both EFI bootloader and GPT partitioning.
> 2. If you use EFI bootloader, you must use GPT partitioning.

My first thought was that this *has to* mean the *converse* of (2),
"If you use GPT partitioning then you must use an EFI bootloader",
but James' config.scm clearly specifies an EFI bootloader, so it
really is badly worded.

James, your config.scm defines an operating-system record; you might
want to try defining an "image" record instead (with GPT partitioning),
see https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/html_node/System-Images.html

zw