Re: System installation from a USB stick

[Ludovic Courtès]

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?

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

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

Ludo’.