Re: Help with a basic GuixSD installation

[Daniel Pimentel <d4n1@openmailbox.org>]

On 2015-06-30 23:04, Evan Rowley wrote:
> Thanks Daniel and Ludovic for the helpful information. I will try to
> install again over the coming days and report my progress.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
> <clacke+gmail@lysator.liu.se> wrote:
>> On 30-Jun-2015 3:08 pm, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> Evan Rowley <rowley.evan@gmail.com> skribis:
>>> 
>>> >   (file-systems (cons (file-system
>>> >                         (device
>>> > "/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593-part3")
>>> >                         (title "root")
>>> >                         (mount-point "/")
>>> >                         (type "ext4"))
>>> >                       %base-file-systems))
>>> 
>>> You should be using something like:
>>> 
>>>   (file-system
>>>     (title 'label)
>>>     (device "ata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593-part3")
>>>     (mount-point "/")
>>>     (type "ext4"))
>>> 
>>> It literally means: Mount the block device whose label (in the 
>>> ext[234]
>>> sense) is “ata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593-part3”.
>>> 
>>> The root file system is mounted from the initrd, when udev is not
>>> running; thus /dev/disk/by-id is not available yet, and it’s 
>>> important
>>> to use this 'label mechanism instead.
>> 
>> So *that's* what the mysterious (title 'label) means!
>> 
>> --
>>    /c
Allright and welcome to Guix world :)

Good luck.
-- 
Daniel Pimentel (d4n1 3:)