From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Tue Apr 14 19:08:30 2020 Received: (at 40590) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Apr 2020 23:08:30 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34980 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jOUfO-0002Ia-CC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 19:08:30 -0400 Received: from relay11.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.178.231]:47191) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jOUfM-0002IJ-BQ for 40590@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 19:08:29 -0400 Received: from localhost (c-73-43-37-130.hsd1.ga.comcast.net [73.43.37.130]) (Authenticated sender: key@keyhenge.xyz) by relay11.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CF988100002; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 23:08:20 +0000 (UTC) References: <87o8rwt84t.fsf@keyhenge.xyz> <87v9m3n6nr.fsf@gmail.com> <87sgh6c2ez.fsf@keyhenge.xyz> <87lfmylfif.fsf@gmail.com> User-agent: mu4e 1.2.0; emacs 26.3 From: "Keyhenge" To: Mathieu Othacehe Subject: Re: bug#40590: In-reply-to: <87lfmylfif.fsf@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 19:08:18 -0400 Message-ID: <87y2qxvf6l.fsf@keyhenge.xyz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Spam-Score: -0.2 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 40590 Cc: 40590@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -0.2 (/) Progress! But not quite there yet. >> It occured to me that the Samsung drive might have been >> corrupted at >> some point, so I dd'd /dev/zero into the first few gigabytes of >> the >> drive to completely wipe the partition table. Sure enough, it >> showed up >> on the partitioning stage of the graphical installer and I was >> able get >> all the way through to the end... except for the same >> efibootmgr error. > > Ok! So it seems that the additional patch is improving the > situation. I > also fear that 1.1.0-rc2 is having the same error as 1.0.1 but > is > swallowing it. I will investigate it further. > > Regarding the efibootmgr error, I'm not really familiar with > EFI. Can > you check that efivarfs is mounted as suggested here[1]? > > [1]: > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/379774/grub-installation-failed Followed the advice on the SE answer, specifically: $ mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars $ rm /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/dump-* And it successfully installed!.. sort of. Guix now boots to this screen[1] and then hard freezes. Just in case its relevant, I did the installation twice (both through TTY in order to run the mount/rm commands): 1. 2 partitions, boot and encrypted root w/ swapfile, using desktop.scm as a base 2. 3 partitions, boot, root, and a swap partition, using lightweight-desktop.scm as a base Both had the same results. [1]: https://imgur.com/lGWmzfL