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Subject: Re: System installation from a USB stick
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:15:42 +0200
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Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz> skribis:

> On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:

[...]

>> The installation image=E2=80=99s root is mounted by label.  So if you ha=
ppen to
>> have a different partition with the label =E2=80=98gnu-disk-image=E2=80=
=99, then it may
>> end up mounting the wrong partition.  That=E2=80=99s what=E2=80=99s happ=
ening 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
=E2=80=98mkfs.ext2 -L gnu-disk-image ...=E2=80=99, there=E2=80=99s no reaso=
n it uses the same
name.

But can you actually check whether this is the case, for instance using
the =E2=80=98blkid=E2=80=99 command?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.