Re: System installation from a USB stick

[Adam Pribyl]

On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> Adam Pribyl <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >
> > > I’ve uploaded a new USB installation image for x86_64 for testing:
> > >
> > >  http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/gnu-usb-install-20140718.x86_64.xz
> > >  SHA1: ac944214af34d62b585fa089cd333c1e007be7f2
> > >  (105 MiB)
> > >
> > > Use alt-f2 to see the relevant doc.
> > >
> > > Feedback welcome!
> >
> > I did not get too far.
> >
> > Booted fine, but mounted my HDD install root /dev/sda1 as /real-root
> > and I can not unmount it or
> > find /real-root...
>
> 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.

> If so, the solution would be to change the label of your own partition
> to avoid the name clash.

There seems to be no e2fsprogs or at least e2label... I'll try to change 
it from different live USB.

> Ideally we would mount by UUID but I think that was impractical when I
> looked at it.

Well yes, neither UUID is ideal solution.

> Ludo’.

Adam Pribyl