bug#48419: Fwd: bug#48419: Unexpected problem during install of Guix System 1.3.0

[Matthias Cullmann]

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From: Matthias Cullmann <matthias.cullmann@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2021 at 15:31
Subject: Re: bug#48419: Unexpected problem during install of Guix System 1.3.0
To: Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>

Hi Bengt,

here is what I get ( now under MX linux on the same box ).

$ ls /dev/disk/by-id/*|xargs file
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Micron_M600_MTFDDAV256MBF_154010B93F27:       symbolic link to ../../sda
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Micron_M600_MTFDDAV256MBF_154010B93F27-part1: symbolic link to ../../sda1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Micron_M600_MTFDDAV256MBF_154010B93F27-part2: symbolic link to ../../sda2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Micron_M600_MTFDDAV256MBF_154010B93F27-part3: symbolic link to ../../sda3
/dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x500a075110b93f27:                           symbolic link to ../../sda
/dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x500a075110b93f27-part1:                     symbolic link to ../../sda1
/dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x500a075110b93f27-part2:                     symbolic link to ../../sda2
/dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x500a075110b93f27-part3:                     symbolic link to ../../sda3

$  lsblk -f
NAME   FSTYPE LABEL    UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT
sda                                                                        
├─sda1 vfat            7C99-13AE                             251.8M     0% /boot/efi
├─sda2 ext4   rootMX19 90aa2c4f-5266-47bc-9b73-228c524b2790  211.2G     4% /
└─sda3 swap   swapMX   bf24ea70-f3e5-4023-9367-98bcc1c464ac                [SWAP]

To me it looks quite standard?

Thx & regards.

Matthias

On Sat, 15 May 2021 at 11:35, Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com> wrote:

Hi,

On +2021-05-14 16:50:48 +0200, Matthias Cullmann wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am trying to install Guix System 1.3.0 on an Asus ZenBook UX305 using the
> wizard.
>
> After the partitioning I get the error in the attached screen shot.
>
> ( mount "/dev/sda1" on "mnt/boot/ef" : No such device)
>
> I had Linux installed already on this computer and would not need to
> re-partition.
>
> Any ideas how to fix this?
>
> Thx & regards,
>
> Matthias
>
what does this output?
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ ls /dev/disk/by-id/*|xargs file
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Maybe you have nve disk that does not get translated to /dev/sdaX ?

If you have linux running, try
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ lsblk -f
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Maybe you will see something like

nvme0n1
├─nvme0n1p1 ...
└─nvme0n1p2 ...

which would suggest that your
    /dev/sda1
maybe should be
    /dev/nvme0n1p1

but in general, IMO device references without unique id's are bloody feet waiting to happen.

I would suggest looking at uuid's for file systems, partitions, or devices,
such as you can view with lsblk

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Regards,
Bengt Richter