Re: Installing GuixSD on an external USB hard drive

[Divan Santana <divan@santanas.co.za>]

Divan Santana <divan@santanas.co.za> writes:

> 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)

OK, I think this is a bug.

The way I worked around it was to:

1) remount /gnu/store rw

2)

cd
/gnu/store/n9ym4yl7s55pm57rnc5whjlzjgvxas32-linux-libre-4.16.2/lib/modules/4.16.2-gnu/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/
cp usb_storage.ko usb-storage.ko

As said earlier guix doesn't allow me to specify usb-storage in the scm
file and it suggests usb_storage, which it fails to find without the
above hack. Prob gets it from lsmod which reports usb_storage while the
file is usb-storage.ko

This is obviously not right.

Prob a simple fix but out of my capabilities at the mo.

lol
--
Divan