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-rw-r--r--gnu/bootloader/grub.scm15
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/bootloader/grub.scm b/gnu/bootloader/grub.scm
index af7b7561ff..3177452dfb 100644
--- a/gnu/bootloader/grub.scm
+++ b/gnu/bootloader/grub.scm
@@ -191,9 +191,18 @@ fi~%"
(define font-file
(let* ((bootloader (bootloader-configuration-bootloader config))
(grub (bootloader-package bootloader)))
- (normalize-file (file-append grub "/share/grub/unicode.pf2")
- store-mount-point
- store-directory-prefix)))
+ ;; The bootloader-package may be a profile with only symlinks.
+ ;; If network booting, then a symlink to the font may not work on the
+ ;; server side. Therefore we canonicalize the file name of the font.
+ ;; TODO: The font gets installed by (install-grub-efi-netboot) and
+ ;; (install-grub-efi). The installed font could be referred to as
+ ;; "unicode". But it is currently unclear if (install-grub-disk-image)
+ ;; and (install-grub) both install the font as well.
+ ;; Actually this should be preferred.
+ #~(canonicalize-path
+ #+(normalize-file (file-append grub "/share/grub/unicode.pf2")
+ store-mount-point
+ store-directory-prefix))))
(define image
(normalize-file (grub-background-image config)