Timothy Sample <samp...@ngyro.com> writes:
> Hi Joshua,
>
> Joshua Branson <jbra...@dismail.de> writes:
>
>
> I agree with you that the manual could be more clear. In the
> installation section, it mentions needing an EFI partition that is
> mounted, but it never spells out that this needs to be included in the
> operating system configuration. I am not sure how exactly to fix it
> though. If you were willing propose something, that would be very
> helpful!
Perhaps for now, I'll just throw in this patch that modifies an
guix/system/examples desktop file. The "full blown" desktop has a UEFI
boot, but it does not show the (file-system (type "vfat") ...) example.
This patch should fix that.
The "light weight window manager" in the manual does have a
(file-system (type "vfat") ...).
>From 0d35f5c6a73dc97959779f727c25e81de9192680 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Branson <jbra...@dismail.de>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 05:47:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] I modified the UEFI desktop example to include the
(file-system (type "vfat") ...)
---
gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl b/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl
index 1b8d46afa..9c36a2692 100644
--- a/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl
+++ b/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@
(mount-point "/")
(type "ext4")
(dependencies mapped-devices))
+ (file-system
+ (device (uuid "1234-ABCD" 'fat))
+ (mount-point "/boot/efi")
+ (type "vfat"))
%base-file-systems))
(users (cons (user-account
--
2.20.1
--
Joshua Branson
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