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Re: Help with a basic GuixSD installation
From: |
Evan Rowley |
Subject: |
Re: Help with a basic GuixSD installation |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Jun 2015 22:04:26 -0400 |
Thanks Daniel and Ludovic for the helpful information. I will try to
install again over the coming days and report my progress.
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 30-Jun-2015 3:08 pm, "Ludovic Courtès" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Evan Rowley <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>> > (file-systems (cons (file-system
>> > (device
>> > "/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593-part3")
>> > (title "root")
>> > (mount-point "/")
>> > (type "ext4"))
>> > %base-file-systems))
>>
>> You should be using something like:
>>
>> (file-system
>> (title 'label)
>> (device "ata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593-part3")
>> (mount-point "/")
>> (type "ext4"))
>>
>> It literally means: Mount the block device whose label (in the ext[234]
>> sense) is “ata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593-part3”.
>>
>> The root file system is mounted from the initrd, when udev is not
>> running; thus /dev/disk/by-id is not available yet, and it’s important
>> to use this 'label mechanism instead.
>
> So *that's* what the mysterious (title 'label) means!
>
> --
> /c
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- EJR