Re: System installation from a USB stick

[Adam Pribyl]

On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Adam Pribyl wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
> > Adam Pribyl <address@hidden> 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