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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Installer: GUIX_IMAGE as /dev/sda on some hardware?
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 17:11:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o93mwr4b.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y32u3c9f.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> (Giovanni Biscuolo's message of "Sat, 25 May 2019 15:16:28 +0200")

Hello!

Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu> skribis:

> But wait! There's the /dev/disk/by-id/ tree, I did not notice it until
> now! :-)
>
> That's the solution:
>
>
>   (bootloader
>     (bootloader-configuration
>       (bootloader grub-bootloader)
>       (target "/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3600508b1001c75a3bebb04b23d19e249")
>       (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))
>
> I did not test this but it smells like running, if Guix devels agree I
> think Installer should adopt /dev/disk/by-id by default, sorry I'm not
> able to propose a patch for this

Ideally, we’d use an actual UUID object (or a string?) here rather than
this Linux/udev-specific idiom.  So it would look like:

  (bootloader-configuration
    ;; …
    (target (uuid …)))

Would that work?

I believe using Guile-Parted we could map it back to a /dev name.

WDYT?

Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-28 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-25  9:04 Installer: GUIX_IMAGE as /dev/sda on some hardware? Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-05-25 11:58 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-05-25 13:16   ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-05-26 11:22     ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-05-26 11:31     ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-05-26 21:26     ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-05-28 15:11     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-05-28 17:29       ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-05-29 19:49         ` bug#35995: " Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-05-29 19:49         ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-05-29 20:19           ` bug#35995: " Danny Milosavljevic
2019-05-31 21:42             ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-31 21:42             ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-31 22:16               ` bug#35995: " Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-05-31 22:16               ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-05-31 23:31                 ` bug#35995: " Danny Milosavljevic
2019-05-31 23:31                 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-05-29 19:16       ` bug#35995: [wishlist] bootloader-configuration, avoid use of /dev/sd? Giovanni Biscuolo
     [not found]         ` <handler.35995.B.155915741432036.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2024-02-28  9:29           ` Giovanni Biscuolo

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