From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Divan Santana Subject: Installing GuixSD on an external USB hard drive Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 20:04:12 +0200 Message-ID: <87k1t7hvtv.fsf@santanas.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37857) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f88y9-0006Eh-H8 for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:35:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f88y6-0006Ni-63 for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:35:13 -0400 Received: from outmail148109.authsmtp.co.uk ([62.13.148.109]:16561) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f88y5-0006J8-JV for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:35:10 -0400 Received: from mail-c245.authsmtp.com (mail-c245.authsmtp.com [62.13.128.245]) by punt21.authsmtp.com. (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id w3GI4T6q090181 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:04:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from divan@santanas.co.za) Received: from mail.santanas.co.za ([156.0.193.126]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.authsmtp.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id w3GI4Pot004882 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:04:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from divan@santanas.co.za) Received: from authenticated-user (mail.santanas.co.za [156.0.193.126]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.santanas.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EE2CF2019A for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 20:04:22 +0200 (SAST) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix Hi Guix, So I'm installing GuixSD on an external USB hard drive. This is obviously quite useful to test and setup all before you switch to it. I plan to eventually install on laptop. I could do it in a VM but... Anyway, the install went flawless and docs are great. *After a reboot*, I did a guix pull and system reconfigure. (I did change the drive letter, since post reboot grub was on sdb, not c) I got an error saying: unknown location, you may need these modules in the initrd: uas usb_storage . It then pastes the snippet of code. Really cool and useful. Though, bit confused why the install worked and rebooted, yet post reboot I now require it? Moving on, I add the snippet of code but it errors out with: usb_storage module not found. A find shows the module is in the 4.16 dir, named usb-storage. Note - not _. I thought perhaps that's the issue so I changed the code to specify mod usb-storage (not _). However I then get the orig error, that I should add usb_storage mod in initrd-modules. Suppose the question is why is usb_storage not found? Any ideas? (sorry for lack of exact messages, don't have remote access to system at mo) -- Divan