I have a Trekstor Surfbook A13B running Parabola (so other installers/distros work fine) Installer works on other PCs, so the installer is not corrupt.
Jul 26, 2019, 10:18 PM by jackh...@jackhill.us: > On Fri, 26 Jul 2019, luka...@tutanota.com wrote: > >> I it freezes my UEFI so it doesn't boot... No GRUB, no GNU Shepard, >> nothing... >> :( >> > > Lukas, > > Wow, when it fails that early in the process, there is not that much to go > on. Have you tried booting other other (non-Guix) media. It would be > interesting to know if other live media (e.g. > https://wiki.parabola.nu/Get_Parabola ) works for you. > > How are you loading Guix unto your boot media? It might be interesting to try > a CD or USB if you've only tried one so far. > > This might be getting ahead of ourselves, but even if you can't get the Guix > installer to boot, you may still be able to get Guix installed on your > computer. Options are to connect the disk to a different computer and use > Guix (potentially installed on a foreign distro) there to do the installation > on the disk, and move it to the target computer once installed. I had to do > this recently for a host that would not boot from external media. A variation > on this theme would be to install use the Guix binary distribution on > different live media that you are able to boot. > > Also, if you hava way to do it, updating to the latest version of your UEFI > code might be a good idea. > > What computer and UEFI are you using? > > Best, > Jack >
