Re: System installation from a USB stick

[Adam Pribyl]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> I’ve finally fixed this problem: <http://bugs.gnu.org/18061>.
> Not perfect, since it requires users to type an extra command, but that
> seems acceptable to me.
>
> I would very much appreciate new tests and feedback.  Here’s a new image
> with this fix:
>
>  http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/gnu-usb-install-20140723.x86_64.xz
>  
> http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/gnu-usb-install-20140723.x86_64.xz.asc
>  SHA1: 7d277ed9a0927fd08e211125eca9a8bea98e7c3e
>
> (For 32-bit, you can rebuild it with the usual command.)

Installation went fine.

I can not boot installed system, boot looks for /dev/sda1 which is not 
present. It smells to me like the same problem with devtmpfs previously in 
live USB... I found in grub the reference to /dev/sda1 (as LiveUSB now 
with udev in devtmpfs and kernel 3.15.6 asigns the HDD /dev/sda) but it 
looks like the kernel booting from HDD is not seeing it like this.

Notes:
- Installed system has kernel 3.15.5 and guix 0.6 while the liveUSB has 
kernel 3.15.6 and guix 0.7

- The help file on tty2 needs to be updated to accomodate the info about 
cow-store

- I would vote for the basic config.scm to be present on the USB 
somewhere, it is time consuming to rewrite one from help to the file. 
(Could be I may copy it somehow from info page, but I would need a help 
how to do that.)

- Time synchro or at least hwclock --hctosys would be fine as everything 
is installed 1.1.1970

- My boot is somewhat long due to missing firmware for a Radeon graphics 
card and "fatal error during GPU init". This is probably due to 
linux-libre kernel. I am not sure if this could be mitigated somehow, 
generally is not a problem.

> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

Adam Pribyl