On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 11:25:32PM +0100, Jan Wielkiewicz wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to install Guix System to an external hard drive from > existing Guix System on my laptop, but I encounter an error after > running "sudo guix system init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt > --system=x86_64-linux": > > guix system: error: > '/gnu/store/492amr5kh838i3021grmmn0pci80rfan-grub-efi-2.04/sbin/grub-install > --boot-directory /mnt/boot --bootloader-id=Guix --efi-directory > /mnt/boot/efi' exited with status 1; output follows: > > /gnu/store/492amr5kh838i3021grmmn0pci80rfan-grub-efi-2.04/sbin/grub-install: > error: > > /gnu/store/492amr5kh838i3021grmmn0pci80rfan-grub-efi-2.04/lib/grub/i386-pc/modinfo.sh > doesn't exist. Use --target or --directory. > > My target machine is an UEFI, x86_64 system. > The hard drive is partitioned and mounted in the following way: > > sdb > ├─sdb1 vfat 511,7M 0% /mnt/boot > ├─sdb2 btrfs 143,8G 3% /mnt > ├─sdb3 btrfs this will be /home > └─sdb4 btrfs this doesn't matter > > That's how my bootloader and file-systems configuration looks like: > > (bootloader > (bootloader-configuration > (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader) > (target "/boot/efi") > (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout))) > (file-systems > (cons* (file-system > (mount-point "/boot") > (device > (uuid "71B0-513F" 'fat)) > (type "vfat")) > (file-system > (mount-point "/") > (device > (file-system-label "root")) > (type "btrfs")) > (file-system > (mount-point "/home") > (device > (file-system-label "home")) > (type "btrfs")) > %base-file-systems)) > > I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but don't know what. >
On my machine with EFI I mounted my vfat partition at /boot/efi instead of /boot. Does your /boot partition contain an efi directory? -- Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted
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