From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: System installation from a USB stick
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:15:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vbqtfq0x.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1407191356450.11181@sandbox.cz> (Adam Pribyl's message of "Sat, 19 Jul 2014 14:02:51 +0200 (CEST)")
Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz> skribis:
> On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
[...]
>> The installation image’s root is mounted by label. So if you happen to
>> have a different partition with the label ‘gnu-disk-image’, then it may
>> end up mounting the wrong partition. That’s what’s happening here,
>> right?
>
> Well, could be, this is a test machine where I installed the previous
> USB image. If the name is the same at installes as the USB OS, then it
> is very probable.
The partition is manually created by the user. So unless you did
‘mkfs.ext2 -L gnu-disk-image ...’, there’s no reason it uses the same
name.
But can you actually check whether this is the case, for instance using
the ‘blkid’ command?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-19 13:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-03 20:39 System installation from a USB stick Ludovic Courtès
2014-06-29 22:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-01 12:06 ` David Thompson
2014-07-01 21:50 ` David Thompson
2014-07-02 10:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-02 11:40 ` David Thompson
2014-07-02 12:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-02 10:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-03 0:18 ` David Thompson
2014-07-15 14:27 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2014-07-16 7:14 ` Adam Pribyl
2014-07-16 14:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-16 10:02 ` John Darrington
2014-07-16 14:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-18 7:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-18 11:27 ` Adam Pribyl
2014-07-18 11:28 ` Adam Pribyl
2014-07-18 11:51 ` David Thompson
2014-07-18 18:12 ` Adam Pribyl
2014-07-19 10:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-19 12:02 ` Adam Pribyl
2014-07-19 13:15 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-07-19 13:39 ` Adam Pribyl
2014-07-19 13:47 ` Adam Pribyl
2014-07-19 16:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-19 17:14 ` Adam Pribyl
2014-07-20 8:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-20 13:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-23 15:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-24 10:09 ` Adam Pribyl
2014-07-24 11:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-24 11:57 ` David Thompson
2014-07-24 14:10 ` Adam Pribyl
2014-07-24 14:26 ` David Thompson
2014-07-24 21:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-21 7:44 ` Adam Pribyl
2014-07-21 16:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-21 18:16 ` Adam Pribyl
2014-07-21 18:43 ` Adam Pribyl
2014-07-21 21:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-21 19:02 ` Adam Pribyl
2014-07-21 21:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-21 21:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-22 16:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-22 20:26 ` Andreas Enge
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