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From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
To: Tim Magee <timothy@eastlincoln.net>
Cc: 44872@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44872: GuixSD 1.2.0 installer fails with exception when formatting drive
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2020 10:46:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sg8p3lkd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27a49c91-3145-b97a-95d9-80147893aa1a@eastlincoln.net> (Tim Magee's message of "Sat, 28 Nov 2020 00:27:19 -0500")


Hey Tim,

> I successfully installed GNU Guix.
>
> The work around I used for this bug is I simply ran `sudo dd
> if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda`. Basically, I think the existence of an old
> GPT partition table is causing problems on a new install though I'm not
> sure why.

Nice you found a work-around. I think I already hit this issue myself
without being able to reproduce it. Do you remember what was the
previous GPT layout of your drive? Maybe the distribution previously
installed?

Thanks,

Mathieu




  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-01  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <300530410.943064.1606325189191.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2020-11-25 17:26 ` bug#44872: GuixSD 1.2.0 installer fails with exception when formatting drive Tim Magee
2020-11-26  8:58   ` Mathieu Othacehe
     [not found]     ` <304538163.1205868.1606443556649@mail.yahoo.com>
2020-11-27  3:12       ` bug#44872: Fw: " Tim Magee
2020-11-28  5:27     ` Tim Magee
2020-12-01  9:46       ` Mathieu Othacehe [this message]
2020-11-29 19:02   ` andi
2020-12-22  2:13   ` Tim Magee via web
2021-04-22 14:48   ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-22 22:40     ` bug#44872: Installer crash: 'uuid->string' is passed #f in lieu of a UUID Ludovic Courtès
2021-06-05 23:08   ` David Wilson
2021-06-07  6:20     ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-06-08 16:33       ` David Wilson
2021-06-09 15:57         ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-06-09 16:44           ` David Wilson
2021-06-12  7:49             ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-06-12 13:53               ` David Wilson
2021-06-12 16:53                 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-06-12 22:26                   ` David Wilson
2021-06-17 10:24                     ` Mathieu Othacehe

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