From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
Cc: 44101@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44101: Unable to use /dev/disk/by-id/ symlinks with u-boot and guix system reconfigure
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 08:14:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ft65t1n6.fsf@ponder> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875z71jr61.fsf@gnu.org>
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On 2020-10-23, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
>> I don't quite understand why that would be the issue here; guix system
>> reconfigure works fine when /dev/mmcblkN is specified target in the
>> system config.scm, just not when the target is /dev/disk/by-id/...
>
> I don't think it works fine with /dev/mmcblkN. I think the bootloader
> configuration file is installed in /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf when
> using /dev/mmcblkN or /dev/disk/, but the bootloader itself is actually
> never installed.
That does not match the behavior I observed; it definitely successfully
installs the bootloader when passing the raw device rather than a
symlink. Which I can only think of a small number of conditions that
would trigger that sort of behavior...
I'm fairly confident in this because I've been experimenting with two
incompatible u-boot bootloaders on the same boot media (one for
pinebook, and one for pinebook pro) and a successful installation
overwrites the bootloader, resulting in the expected machine booting,
and the other machine not booting. With a symlink it doesn't install to
the raw device at all...
That said, I'll move on to testing your next patch. :)
live well,
vagrant
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-20 17:06 bug#44101: Unable to use /dev/disk/by-id/ symlinks with u-boot and guix system reconfigure Vagrant Cascadian
2020-10-22 7:58 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-10-22 20:08 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-10-22 23:12 ` Bengt Richter
2020-10-23 8:13 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-10-23 8:44 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-10-24 1:40 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-11-02 19:14 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-11-03 7:02 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-10-23 15:14 ` Vagrant Cascadian [this message]
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