Re: System installation from a USB stick

[Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz>]

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On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz> skribis:
>
>> On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>
>>> I’ve uploaded a new USB installation image for x86_64 for testing:
>>>
>>>  http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/gnu-usb-install-20140718.x86_64.xz
>>>  SHA1: ac944214af34d62b585fa089cd333c1e007be7f2
>>>  (105 MiB)
>>>
>>> Use alt-f2 to see the relevant doc.
>>>
>>> Feedback welcome!
>>
>> I did not get too far.
>>
>> Booted fine, but mounted my HDD install root /dev/sda1 as /real-root
>> and I can not unmount it or
>> find /real-root...
>
> 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.

> If so, the solution would be to change the label of your own partition
> to avoid the name clash.

There seems to be no e2fsprogs or at least e2label... I'll try to change 
it from different live USB.

> Ideally we would mount by UUID but I think that was impractical when I
> looked at it.

Well yes, neither UUID is ideal solution.

> Ludo’.

Adam Pribyl