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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2018-07-05 11:44:46 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2018-07-05 11:44:46 +0200
commitfc0e663f782896f542d008c871d21b9cf636a75c (patch)
tree46f77271fe4e2328a382636c95e120ab460c72cd /gnu/system/examples
parenta043b5b81a080c47e24298c80857919b9ea21bb2 (diff)
doc: Improve UEFI/BIOS bootloader documentation.
Partly fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/30312>. * doc/guix.texi (Preparing for Installation): Add note on how to choose between UEFI and BIOS. (Using the Configuration System)[Bootloader]: New subsubsection. (Bootloader Configuration): Expound on the bootloader type and target. * gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl: Switch to UEFI. * gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl: Explicitly mention "legacy" and "BIOS" in the comments.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/system/examples')
-rw-r--r--gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl5
-rw-r--r--gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl8
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl b/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl
index cb6d2623db..b763258e52 100644
--- a/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl
+++ b/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl
@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@
(timezone "Europe/Berlin")
(locale "en_US.utf8")
- ;; Assuming /dev/sdX is the target hard disk, and "my-root" is
- ;; the label of the target root file system.
+ ;; Boot in "legacy" BIOS mode, assuming /dev/sdX is the
+ ;; target hard disk, and "my-root" is the label of the target
+ ;; root file system.
(bootloader (bootloader-configuration
(bootloader grub-bootloader)
(target "/dev/sdX")))
diff --git a/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl b/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl
index e8740407d0..ea21e1df66 100644
--- a/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl
+++ b/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl
@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@
(timezone "Europe/Paris")
(locale "en_US.utf8")
- ;; Assuming /dev/sdX is the target hard disk, and "my-root"
- ;; is the label of the target root file system.
+ ;; Use the UEFI variant of GRUB with the EFI System
+ ;; Partition mounted on /boot/efi.
(bootloader (bootloader-configuration
- (bootloader grub-bootloader)
- (target "/dev/sdX")))
+ (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)
+ (target "/boot/efi")))
;; Specify a mapped device for the encrypted root partition.
;; The UUID is that returned by 'cryptsetup luksUUID'.