Re: Understanding how guix selects a bootloader variant

2024-11-04 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Tobias Alexandra, On Sun, Nov 03 2024, Tobias Alexandra Platen wrote: > where guix selects BIOS/UEFI for a VM when using grub-bootloader. I believe it happens here [1] but via "bootloader-configuration". I personally find Guix's bootloader code convoluted. Kind regards Felix P.S. I referre

Re: Understanding how guix selects a bootloader variant

2024-11-04 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
Thats the one I was looking for On Sun, 2024-11-03 at 20:23 +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote: > powerpc-*) platform=ieee1275 ;; >     powerpc64-*) platform=ieee1275 ;; >     powerpc64le-*) platform=ieee1275 ;;

Re: Understanding how guix selects a bootloader variant

2024-11-03 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Sun, Nov 03, 2024 at 05:38:11PM +0100, Tobias Alexandra Platen wrote: > I am currently trying to build a virtual machine image for powerpc64le. > So I intend to fix known errors, starting with the bootloader: > configure: error: platform "efi" is not supported for target CPU > "powerpc64le". The

Understanding how guix selects a bootloader variant

2024-11-03 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
I am currently trying to build a virtual machine image for powerpc64le. So I intend to fix known errors, starting with the bootloader: configure: error: platform "efi" is not supported for target CPU "powerpc64le". The right bootloader variant for anything powerpc, starting from G4 is openfirmware.