[Nix-dev] after rebuild, grub says "error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found"

[Cillian de Róiste]

Thanks for posting this James! I ran into the same thing today.
Luckily, I was able to work around it by changing the order of my
disks in BIOS.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 7:39 AM, James Cook <james.cook at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> On 16 September 2014 21:11, James Cook <james.cook at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> After updating from approximately 9cbc2165 (Aug 23) to b079eef31 (Sep
>> 16), instead of booting, my system gave the error message in the
>> subject.  It seems the same as
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1289977 and I
>> fixed it with the same solution (booting from a USB stick, sudo
>> grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/<sth>/boot /dev/sdX).
>>
>> I haven't seen this problem when updating in the past, so I am
>> guessing it is a bug.  Maybe we should wait and see if anyone else
>> sees it before devoting any energy to it though; in any case, it is
>> fixed for me for now.  (I'm not sure how to go about debugging it, but
>> I'll send another e-mail if I see the same problem again next time I
>> update.)
>>
>> James
>
> Okay, it looks like this was caused by /dev/sda and /dev/sdb changing
> places.  I guess I should be doing it by UUID or something.
>
> (I found the following errors at the end of nixos-rebuild's output; I
> guess I missed them before.)
>
> /nix/store/wkmf1mhwkjspdr1myhyalgyc7882q1k7-grub-2.02-git-1de3a4/sbin/grub-install:
> warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition;
> embedding won't be possible.
> /nix/store/wkmf1mhwkjspdr1myhyalgyc7882q1k7-grub-2.02-git-1de3a4/sbin/grub-install:
> error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for cross-disk
> install.
> /nix/store/pmashz5671fadjfyxaxf6r0bcz5839m4-install-grub.pl:
> installation of GRUB on /dev/sda failed
> warning: error(s) occured while switching to the new configuration
>
> James
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