Re: repair broken boot record

2021-12-13 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Thank you Thomas for the post-mortem. > In the end, I reinstallled Guix from scratch […] I couldn't get the > chroot approach to work properly (maybe with more time, ...). Though there is little difference betweem reconfigure and reinstall if the chroot is set up properly, I should better have ad

Re: repair broken boot record

2021-12-13 Thread Thomas Danckaert
Hi Florian, I think I still owed a final response in this thread, especially after all your effort to help out. In the end, I reinstallled Guix from scratch (luckily, I had a full backup of my /home, and Guix makes it easy to restore your system exactly as it was...), and switched to '(bootl

Re: repair broken boot record

2021-10-06 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Wed, Oct 06, 2021 at 10:23:38AM +0200, Thomas Danckaert wrote: > On 2021-10-05 13:04, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 11:28:50AM +0200, Thomas Danckaert wrote: > > > In one of the final > > > steps, where guix tries to install the bootloader, I get the error: > > >

Re: repair broken boot record

2021-10-06 Thread Thomas Danckaert
On 2021-10-05 13:04, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 11:28:50AM +0200, Thomas Danckaert wrote: In one of the final steps, where guix tries to install the bootloader, I get the error: /gnu/store/.../grub/i386-pc/modinfo.sh doesn't exist. Please specify --target or --dir

Re: repair broken boot record

2021-10-05 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 11:28:50AM +0200, Thomas Danckaert wrote: > Hello Florian, > > thank you for your help. I managed to chroot into my system, and re-run > 'guix system reconfigure' (very useful mailing list discussion on chrooting, > I also vote for including it in documentation :) ). I’m

Re: repair broken boot record

2021-10-05 Thread Thomas Danckaert
Hello Florian, thank you for your help. I managed to chroot into my system, and re-run 'guix system reconfigure' (very useful mailing list discussion on chrooting, I also vote for including it in documentation :) ). In one of the final steps, where guix tries to install the bootloader, I get

Re: repair broken boot record

2021-09-30 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 09:43:18AM +0200, Thomas Danckaert wrote: > Hello guix-help, > > my system does not boot anymore after a guix pull and system reconfigure > (which did show a warning, see below). It does not even enter the GRUB > stage, I get a "Reboot and Select proper Boot device" instea