Re: System installation from a USB stick

[Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz>]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, David Thompson wrote:

> Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz> writes:
>
>> I can not boot installed system, boot looks for /dev/sda1 which is not
>> present. It smells to me like the same problem with devtmpfs previously in
>> live USB... I found in grub the reference to /dev/sda1 (as LiveUSB now
>> with udev in devtmpfs and kernel 3.15.6 asigns the HDD /dev/sda) but it
>> looks like the kernel booting from HDD is not seeing it like this.
>
> This could be an instance of the problem that bit me last night.  The
> version of Guix that gets installed (0.6, as you mentioned in your
> notes), uses an initrd that cannot see SATA hard disks.  So, as a
> work-around, you must explicitly add the relevant kernel modules in your
> operating-system definition like so:
>
>  (use-modules (gnu) (srfi srfi-26))
>
>  (define my-os
>    (operating-system
>      ...
>      (initrd (cut base-initrd <> #:extra-modules '("libahci.ko" "ahci.ko")))
>      ...))

OK, this was it. No it's booting! Thanks.

> -- 
> David Thompson

Notes continued:

- guix package -i results in a need to "chgrp 30000 
/gnu/store..."

- attempt to install any package I tried results in a build 
process of many packages including gcc and linux-libre-3.3.8-gnu
I do not understand why this is happening

Adam Pribyl