Re: Help with a basic GuixSD installation

[Daniel Pimentel]

On 2015-06-30 23:04, Evan Rowley wrote:
> 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
Allright and welcome to Guix world :)

Good luck.
--
Daniel Pimentel (d4n1 3:)