Re: Installer: GUIX_IMAGE as /dev/sda on some hardware?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Giovanni Biscuolo <address@hidden> skribis:

> But wait! There's the /dev/disk/by-id/ tree, I did not notice it until
> now! :-)
>
> That's the solution:
>
>
>   (bootloader
>     (bootloader-configuration
>       (bootloader grub-bootloader)
>       (target "/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3600508b1001c75a3bebb04b23d19e249")
>       (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))
>
> I did not test this but it smells like running, if Guix devels agree I
> think Installer should adopt /dev/disk/by-id by default, sorry I'm not
> able to propose a patch for this

Ideally, we’d use an actual UUID object (or a string?) here rather than
this Linux/udev-specific idiom.  So it would look like:

  (bootloader-configuration
    ;; …
    (target (uuid …)))

Would that work?

I believe using Guile-Parted we could map it back to a /dev name.

WDYT?

Ludo’.