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To: Evan Rowley <rowley.evan@gmail.com>
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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.
>=20
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Claes Wallin (=E9=9F=8B=E5=98=89=E8=AA=
=A0)
> <clacke+gmail@lysator.liu.se> wrote:
>> On 30-Jun-2015 3:08 pm, "Ludovic Court=C3=A8s" <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> Evan Rowley <rowley.evan@gmail.com> skribis:
>>>=20
>>> >   (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))
>>>=20
>>> You should be using something like:
>>>=20
>>>   (file-system
>>>     (title 'label)
>>>     (device "ata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593-part3")
>>>     (mount-point "/")
>>>     (type "ext4"))
>>>=20
>>> It literally means: Mount the block device whose label (in the=20
>>> ext[234]
>>> sense) is =E2=80=9Cata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593-part3=E2=80=
=9D.
>>>=20
>>> 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=E2=80=99s=20
>>> important
>>> to use this 'label mechanism instead.
>>=20
>> So *that's* what the mysterious (title 'label) means!
>>=20
>> --
>>    /c
Allright and welcome to Guix world :)

Good luck.
--=20
Daniel Pimentel (d4n1 3:)