From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: GuixSD 0.11.0 Install Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:54:54 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38502) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcUuf-0004QS-GC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 05:56:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcUuc-0005BV-62 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 05:56:01 -0400 Received: from mail-yb0-f176.google.com ([209.85.213.176]:33706) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bcUua-00059o-Ut for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 05:55:58 -0400 Received: by mail-yb0-f176.google.com with SMTP id a7so2592242ybi.0 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 02:55:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Marc Dunivan Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" Hi Marc, > (device "my-root") > (device "my-boot") device should be a path to the device node and should look something like /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2. > (name "Marc") doesn't like capitalized user-names > (title 'label) > (title 'label) remove these This should give you a working setup. Once you have a bootable setup you can always revert to a previous generation if you get a boot failure. I agree that the error messages aren't very user friendly.