Hi, On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 07:15:10 -0800 Bryan Ferris wrote: > I've linked to two videos here, one of the boot (the screen with the GNU > logo and "100% freedom" on it) and one of the init (where Shepherd reports > errors, Thanks! I've viewed those. >I think it's dmesg?). It depends. On early boot it's dmesg and once syslog is up it's syslog. > Boot: > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YMbCI3BvznhMI_eYYTxMvxJC2SKlNqSJ/view?usp=sharing > Init: > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CZov16Xrpy9D8DMN9eHeANjR7UHh2WpL/view?usp=sharing Maybe the CP437 is not harmless after all. Please try adding the unquoted part below at the indicated place: > >> > (file-systems (cons* > >> > (file-system > >> > (device (file-system-label "ESP")) > >> > (mount-point "/boot/efi") > >> > (type "fat") > >> (check? #f) > >> > ) Then invoke guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm as root in order for it to be applied and reboot. This prevents fsck.fat from being invoked - so we hopefully also doesn't need CP437 any more. If that doesn't help, try this (it's kinda dangerous :( ): > >> > (file-systems (cons* > >> > (file-system > >> > (device (file-system-label "ESP")) > >> > (mount-point "/boot/efi") > >> > (type "fat") > >> (check? #f) (needed-for-boot? #f) > >> > ) Then invoke guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm as root in order for it to be applied and reboot. This prevents fsck.fat from being invoked and it also prevents the initial ram disk (a very early tiny GNU system which runs right after the kernel starts up and before init) from trying to mount /boot/efi . The real system will still mount /boot/efi later. It would be interesting if (1) This fixes the problem (I don't think so), or (2) It reduces the number of error messages and makes it less bad. After all this, if it still doesn't work: Try adding the unquoted part: > >> > (file-systems (cons* > >> > (file-system > >> > (device (file-system-label "ESP")) > >> > (mount-point "/boot/efi") > >> > (type "fat") > >> (check? #f) (needed-for-boot? #f) (mount? #f) > >> > ) Then invoke guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm as root in order for it to be applied and reboot. This prevents mounting of /boot/efi entirely (it's pretty dangerous). Should your system not boot any more you can select the older generation in the grub boot menu. It's also possible that you can't run guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm anymore after this. If so, please invoke mount /boot/efi as root. Then you can invoke guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm once. It's likely that the latter will be a successful workaround to the original problem. It would still be good if we got to the root cause later.