Re: System installation from a USB stick

[Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz>]

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On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Adam Pribyl wrote:

> 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.

OK, one more correction - the ahci module is loaded and HDD detected, but 
/dev/sdf is not created. There is just sda to sdd..


>> Thanks,
>> Ludo’.
>
>
> Adam Pribyl

Adam Pribyl