Re: System installation from a USB stick

[Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz>]

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On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz> skribis:
>
>> On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> The installation image’s root is mounted by label.  So if you happen to
>>> have a different partition with the label ‘gnu-disk-image’, then it may
>>> end up mounting the wrong partition.  That’s what’s happening here,
>>> right?
>>
>> Well, could be, this is a test machine where I installed the previous
>> USB image. If the name is the same at installes as the USB OS, then it
>> is very probable.
>
> The partition is manually created by the user.  So unless you did
> ‘mkfs.ext2 -L gnu-disk-image ...’, there’s no reason it uses the same
> name.
>
> But can you actually check whether this is the case, for instance using
> the ‘blkid’ command?


Sorry, I was completely wrong, the new liveUSB has e2fsprogs, however I 
probably do have the problem with ahci module too, and I confused the old 
/dev/sda harddrive which is now missing, and /dev/sda USB. So this is it. 
My HDD is not visible with the new USB image.

> Thanks,
> Ludo’.


Adam Pribyl