Hi there,I am a rookie to Nixos and am using it alongside Ubuntu. I tried to resolve the “installation of GRUB failed” issue by using some earlier Nixos issues, but nothing was getting in the way
Installing for i386-pc platform.
/nix/store/4ifsgb6ljch39yrshhcr5m8z3q5jzb8g-grub-2.12-rc1/sbin/grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible.
/nix/store/4ifsgb6ljch39yrshhcr5m8z3q5jzb8g-grub-2.12-rc1/sbin/grub-install: warning: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
/nix/store/4ifsgb6ljch39yrshhcr5m8z3q5jzb8g-grub-2.12-rc1/sbin/grub-install: error: will not proceed with blocklists.
/nix/store/dy6wk1rf6cyn2w9d5jmm9z2bwlp0vjbm-install-grub.pl: installation of GRUB on /dev/sda failed: No such file or directory
warning: error(s) occurred while switching to the new configuration
my partitions is like:
lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 465,8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 232,8G 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 477M 0 part
└─sda3 8:3 0 232,5G 0 part /nix/store
sda1 is for ubuntu
sba2 is efi partition
sb3 is Nixos
this from my configuration.nix
# Bootloader.
boot.loader.grub.enable = true;
boot.loader.grub.device = "/dev/sda";
boot.loader.grub.useOSProber = true;