From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Graham Lee <graham@iamleeg.com>
Cc: 35722-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35722: Filesystem error in the installer
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 18:30:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871s11yp5b.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63bd426cd2764658e6c1b5379544d7993c8ddc4a.camel@iamleeg.com> (Graham Lee's message of "Mon, 13 May 2019 23:01:10 +0100")
Hello,
Graham Lee <graham@iamleeg.com> skribis:
> I'm trying to install from the GNU GUIX 1.0.0 ISO, which I've copied to
> USB. I pick the graphical installer, run through the language,
> timezone, and keyboard choices. Then I either pick "guided" or "guided
> with encryption" partition scheme, and I choose one big partition
> instead of separate /home. Then the error appears.
>
> I've attached a scaled down photo of the trace, as that was the easiest
> way to get it off of the system I'm running on (which isn't networked
> at the time of error). For clarity, the error message is:
>
> ice-9/eval.scm:159:9: Unhandled fat16 fs-type
I tried in a VM to provide a disk with a FAT16 partition to reproduce
this bug. I could hit this particular error when choosing the “manual”
partitioning method and then selecting the FAT16 partition. However I
could not reproduce the bug when choosing the “guided” methods.
I think we don’t need the installer to be able to create FAT16
partitions; we merely need it to recognize and gracefully handle them
when they exist (which I think is quite unusual: the EFI System
Partition seems to be FAT32 usually, no?).
Anyway I think this is fixed by commit
628d09ae53047ea666f4f84ae5e5be911647fe8c, which Danny just pushed. :-)
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-14 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-13 22:01 bug#35722: Filesystem error in the installer Graham Lee
2019-05-14 16:30 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-05-14 16:50 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-05-14 17:00 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-05-14 17:37 ` Graham Lee
2019-05-14 18:42 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-05-14 18:20 ` Danny Milosavljevic
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