From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Feb 18 11:21:20 2018 Received: (at 30311) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Feb 2018 16:21:20 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49937 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1enRiJ-0004DZ-PU for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:21:19 -0500 Received: from world.peace.net ([50.252.239.5]:49554) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1enRiI-0004DI-7q; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:21:18 -0500 Received: from pool-72-93-27-42.bstnma.east.verizon.net ([72.93.27.42] helo=yeeloong) by world.peace.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1enRiB-0003eS-JR; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:21:11 -0500 From: Mark H Weaver To: 30311@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#30311: efi-less grub install fails Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:20:40 -0500 Message-ID: <87tvuel15z.fsf@netris.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 30311 Cc: Danny Milosavljevic , Ricardo Wurmus X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) reopen 30311 thanks Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Okay, I=E2=80=99ve added =E2=80=9C--target=3Di386-pc=E2=80=9D to the list= of arguments. This change breaks my mips64el-linux GuixSD system, which is supported by GRUB, but where "--target=3Di386-pc" is obviously not appropriate. On my system I need a different 'target' setting. It would be great if we could find another solution to this issue. GRUB's automatic target selection seems to work on most systems, since we've been relying on it for a long time without anyone reporting problems until this bug report. In the rare cases where GRUB fails to detect the target, perhaps we could provide a way to specify an explicit GRUB 'target' in the grub configuration? What do you think? Mark