Znavko, zna...@disroot.org wrote:
I have another laptop (Lenovo G50-30) where Guix works on this partition layout I've made manually:# fdisk -l /dev/sda ...
^ You removed the most important part, please don't do this on help lists.
Still, we can tell that this is an ‘mbr’ layout:
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 2048 230000000 229997953 109.7G 83 Linux/dev/sda2 230000640 234441647 4441008 2.1G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
But all the new installations on other two notebooks with the same layout do not work.
They aren't the same: the one in your screenshot is a completely different ‘gpt’ layout.
Hence my unanswered question:
Did you create this layout manually? If so, why?
Although now I suspect there was no reason and that the installer isn't to blame.
So you can either:- throw away your existing layout and create new MBR disklabel. Your partitioning software will ask you or provide an option somewhere. Since modern partitioning software leaves a huge gap before the first partition, GRUB will nestle cosily into that first unused ~MiB.
- keep it as GPT (it has some minor features MBR doesn't), and create an additional GPT ‘BIOS boot partition’ as recommended before. It only needs to be a few 100 KiB, so I use the space before the first partition (= before the first megabyte; turning off ‘alignment’ in your partitioning software). This tiny partition is for use by GRUB, and GRUB alone: do not format or mount it.
Both options work equally well, but you need to choose. Kind regards, T G-R
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