resubmitted to list On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 12:43 +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > > Do I understand correctly that this message appears when booting the > DVD, not the installed system? Yes.
> > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 03:32:06PM -0700, Calvin Heim wrote: > > > > > > waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... > I cannot check right now if that is a legitimate partition id for the > i686 installer, but the installer source code in > gnu/system/install.scm should mount a partition with > (file-system-label "Guix_image"). You could check from another OS if > this partition label exists. >From Trisquel 8, $ ls /dev/disk/by-label GUIX_IMAGE $ls /dev/disk/by-uuid 1970-01-01-19-49-46-83 [other stuff that doesn't change when the DVD ejects] The contents of by-id and by-partuuid don't change when the install DVD is inserted, so I assume that the contents of those directories are not related to the DVD. > > You could also type in the recovery > Guile repl that opens: > > (use-modules (ice-9 ftw)) > (scandir "/dev/disk/by-id") > (scandir "/dev/disk/by-uuid") > (scandir "/dev/disk/by-partuuid") > > and maybe: > > ,L bournish > cat /run/booted-system/etc/fstab > The keyboard/usb ports do not function at this point in the boot, despite working earlier in the boot during EFI and GRUB. I can see but not type in the recovery Guile repl. > > Regards, > Florian
