Re: failed to resolve partition “my-root”

[Alex Kost]

Ludovic Courtès (2017-06-29 16:33 +0200) wrote:

> Marius Bakke <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Maybe we could add all disk drivers to the base initrd image?
>>
>> $ du -h $(guix build linux-libre 
>> 2>/dev/null)/lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/ata
>> 1.3M
>> /gnu/store/b7nk7glwlrjk8fnw4g7zylzlx7g2f6jd-linux-libre-4.11.6/lib/modules/4.11.6-gnu/kernel/drivers/ata
>>
>> That doesn't sound too much to me and will save many users some trouble.
>
> Maybe not “all” because it’s a moving target, but at least “some”.

I vote for adding "sata_nv".  It is also required for my computer.  And
as Ricardo, I had a hard time trying to figure out why I get:

  waiting for partition 'root' to appear

Also I recall there was another person who had the same problem (missing
"sata_nv" module).  There was a conversation on the subject here:

  https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2015-05-30#T666910

A missing kernel module required for HDD, may be the end of the game for
most users who want to try GuixSD, so I think we should add such modules
by default.  I don't know what else is missing, but "sata_nv" looks like
a good candidate to be added.

-- 
Alex