From: Evan Rowley <rowley.evan@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Help with a basic GuixSD installation
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 22:04:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMhuX2DqEHgmt+D6Qoynxzkg3+fYHfqh6dibF8_sCbHqfzhOvQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGv_=BrWCSgxM1oB4AMv+cUJvJZwBTCy6Ae_oHtWs5r7To5yPw@mail.gmail.com>
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
--
- EJR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-01 2:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-29 18:18 Help with a basic GuixSD installation Evan Rowley
2015-06-30 1:55 ` Daniel Pimentel
2015-06-30 13:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-30 17:06 ` Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
2015-07-01 2:04 ` Evan Rowley [this message]
2015-07-01 14:38 ` Daniel Pimentel
2015-07-01 9:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-01 12:46 ` Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
2015-07-05 8:16 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-07-05 14:34 ` Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
2015-07-05 22:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-06 1:59 ` Evan Rowley
2015-07-02 14:21 ` Daniel Pimentel
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