Re: [Nix-dev] Problems installing NixOS with btrfs from a USB stick
Well I think to workaround it, a call to ln -s needs to be added here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/iso-image.nix#L213 I just can't remember right now what the symlink has to be... When I get some time (and someone else doesn't beat me to it) I'll try to reproduce. Of course the real issue is that mkfs.btrfs gets confused while trying to find the root fs and should be fixed. Adding a symlink is an easier fix though ;-) Cheers, Wout. On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.namewrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 07:09:32AM +0200, Wout Mertens wrote: Actually, I wasn't being clear, I only fixed it for me :-) I remember going through this too, two years ago. At some point I reported that upstream, and as I didn't install anything else, I hoped someone fixed it. On Apr 16, 2014 3:11 AM, Thomas Strobel ts...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Thank you very much for looking into it and fixing it so quickly! On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 08:52 +0200, Wout Mertens wrote: I fixed it by stracing mkfs. btrfs and creating a symlink to /. Basically it gets confused by the bind mounts and looks for root at the original location. So just strace -eopen mkfs... and look for enoent. On phone, sorry for lack of details. On Apr 13, 2014 12:41 PM, Alexei Robyn sha...@shados.net wrote: Hello, If you're talking about the can't determine mount status of /dev/... issue, this is a bug with mkfs.btrfs. See http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2012-December/010237.html - Alexei On Sun, Apr 13, 2014, at 07:49 PM, Cillian de Róiste wrote: Hi! On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Thomas Strobel ts...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Hi there, I was running into problems when trying to install NixOS with btrfs from a USB stick. I downloaded the current .iso and used unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive from it. Unfortunately, the resulting installation environment did not allow to use mkfs.btrfs as it could not decide on the mounting status of my partition. It seemed as if unetbootin prepared the system in a way that prevented mkfs.btrfs from working. Did anyone else experience that problem? If so, then my question is if the .iso files could be changed in a way that allows to prepare the USB stick with a simple dd-command, e.g. like Debian or GRML ISOs do, and that keeps mkft.btrfs working? You could try installing syslinux and using isohybrid to create a hybrid bootable image which you can dd onto a USB stick: isohybrid filename.iso http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Doc/isolinux#HYBRID_CD-ROM.2FHARD_DISK_MODE I'm not sure if that will help with the btrfs issue, but it would be good to know if it worked. Good luck! Cillian ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] Problems installing NixOS with btrfs from a USB stick
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 07:09:32AM +0200, Wout Mertens wrote: Actually, I wasn't being clear, I only fixed it for me :-) I remember going through this too, two years ago. At some point I reported that upstream, and as I didn't install anything else, I hoped someone fixed it. On Apr 16, 2014 3:11 AM, Thomas Strobel ts...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Thank you very much for looking into it and fixing it so quickly! On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 08:52 +0200, Wout Mertens wrote: I fixed it by stracing mkfs. btrfs and creating a symlink to /. Basically it gets confused by the bind mounts and looks for root at the original location. So just strace -eopen mkfs... and look for enoent. On phone, sorry for lack of details. On Apr 13, 2014 12:41 PM, Alexei Robyn sha...@shados.net wrote: Hello, If you're talking about the can't determine mount status of /dev/... issue, this is a bug with mkfs.btrfs. See http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2012-December/010237.html - Alexei On Sun, Apr 13, 2014, at 07:49 PM, Cillian de Róiste wrote: Hi! On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Thomas Strobel ts...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Hi there, I was running into problems when trying to install NixOS with btrfs from a USB stick. I downloaded the current .iso and used unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive from it. Unfortunately, the resulting installation environment did not allow to use mkfs.btrfs as it could not decide on the mounting status of my partition. It seemed as if unetbootin prepared the system in a way that prevented mkfs.btrfs from working. Did anyone else experience that problem? If so, then my question is if the .iso files could be changed in a way that allows to prepare the USB stick with a simple dd-command, e.g. like Debian or GRML ISOs do, and that keeps mkft.btrfs working? You could try installing syslinux and using isohybrid to create a hybrid bootable image which you can dd onto a USB stick: isohybrid filename.iso http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Doc/isolinux#HYBRID_CD-ROM.2FHARD_DISK_MODE I'm not sure if that will help with the btrfs issue, but it would be good to know if it worked. Good luck! Cillian ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] Problems installing NixOS with btrfs from a USB stick
I fixed it by stracing mkfs. btrfs and creating a symlink to /. Basically it gets confused by the bind mounts and looks for root at the original location. So just strace -eopen mkfs... and look for enoent. On phone, sorry for lack of details. On Apr 13, 2014 12:41 PM, Alexei Robyn sha...@shados.net wrote: Hello, If you're talking about the can't determine mount status of /dev/... issue, this is a bug with mkfs.btrfs. See http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2012-December/010237.html - Alexei On Sun, Apr 13, 2014, at 07:49 PM, Cillian de Róiste wrote: Hi! On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Thomas Strobel ts...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Hi there, I was running into problems when trying to install NixOS with btrfs from a USB stick. I downloaded the current .iso and used unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive from it. Unfortunately, the resulting installation environment did not allow to use mkfs.btrfs as it could not decide on the mounting status of my partition. It seemed as if unetbootin prepared the system in a way that prevented mkfs.btrfs from working. Did anyone else experience that problem? If so, then my question is if the .iso files could be changed in a way that allows to prepare the USB stick with a simple dd-command, e.g. like Debian or GRML ISOs do, and that keeps mkft.btrfs working? You could try installing syslinux and using isohybrid to create a hybrid bootable image which you can dd onto a USB stick: isohybrid filename.iso http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Doc/isolinux#HYBRID_CD-ROM.2FHARD_DISK_MODE I'm not sure if that will help with the btrfs issue, but it would be good to know if it worked. Good luck! Cillian ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] Problems installing NixOS with btrfs from a USB stick
Thank you very much for looking into it and fixing it so quickly! On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 08:52 +0200, Wout Mertens wrote: I fixed it by stracing mkfs. btrfs and creating a symlink to /. Basically it gets confused by the bind mounts and looks for root at the original location. So just strace -eopen mkfs... and look for enoent. On phone, sorry for lack of details. On Apr 13, 2014 12:41 PM, Alexei Robyn sha...@shados.net wrote: Hello, If you're talking about the can't determine mount status of /dev/... issue, this is a bug with mkfs.btrfs. See http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2012-December/010237.html - Alexei On Sun, Apr 13, 2014, at 07:49 PM, Cillian de Róiste wrote: Hi! On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Thomas Strobel ts...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Hi there, I was running into problems when trying to install NixOS with btrfs from a USB stick. I downloaded the current .iso and used unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive from it. Unfortunately, the resulting installation environment did not allow to use mkfs.btrfs as it could not decide on the mounting status of my partition. It seemed as if unetbootin prepared the system in a way that prevented mkfs.btrfs from working. Did anyone else experience that problem? If so, then my question is if the .iso files could be changed in a way that allows to prepare the USB stick with a simple dd-command, e.g. like Debian or GRML ISOs do, and that keeps mkft.btrfs working? You could try installing syslinux and using isohybrid to create a hybrid bootable image which you can dd onto a USB stick: isohybrid filename.iso http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Doc/isolinux#HYBRID_CD-ROM.2FHARD_DISK_MODE I'm not sure if that will help with the btrfs issue, but it would be good to know if it worked. Good luck! Cillian ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] Problems installing NixOS with btrfs from a USB stick
Actually, I wasn't being clear, I only fixed it for me :-) Sorry... On Apr 16, 2014 3:11 AM, Thomas Strobel ts...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Thank you very much for looking into it and fixing it so quickly! On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 08:52 +0200, Wout Mertens wrote: I fixed it by stracing mkfs. btrfs and creating a symlink to /. Basically it gets confused by the bind mounts and looks for root at the original location. So just strace -eopen mkfs... and look for enoent. On phone, sorry for lack of details. On Apr 13, 2014 12:41 PM, Alexei Robyn sha...@shados.net wrote: Hello, If you're talking about the can't determine mount status of /dev/... issue, this is a bug with mkfs.btrfs. See http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2012-December/010237.html - Alexei On Sun, Apr 13, 2014, at 07:49 PM, Cillian de Róiste wrote: Hi! On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Thomas Strobel ts...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Hi there, I was running into problems when trying to install NixOS with btrfs from a USB stick. I downloaded the current .iso and used unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive from it. Unfortunately, the resulting installation environment did not allow to use mkfs.btrfs as it could not decide on the mounting status of my partition. It seemed as if unetbootin prepared the system in a way that prevented mkfs.btrfs from working. Did anyone else experience that problem? If so, then my question is if the .iso files could be changed in a way that allows to prepare the USB stick with a simple dd-command, e.g. like Debian or GRML ISOs do, and that keeps mkft.btrfs working? You could try installing syslinux and using isohybrid to create a hybrid bootable image which you can dd onto a USB stick: isohybrid filename.iso http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Doc/isolinux#HYBRID_CD-ROM.2FHARD_DISK_MODE I'm not sure if that will help with the btrfs issue, but it would be good to know if it worked. Good luck! Cillian ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
[Nix-dev] Problems installing NixOS with btrfs from a USB stick
Hi there, I was running into problems when trying to install NixOS with btrfs from a USB stick. I downloaded the current .iso and used unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive from it. Unfortunately, the resulting installation environment did not allow to use mkfs.btrfs as it could not decide on the mounting status of my partition. It seemed as if unetbootin prepared the system in a way that prevented mkfs.btrfs from working. Did anyone else experience that problem? If so, then my question is if the .iso files could be changed in a way that allows to prepare the USB stick with a simple dd-command, e.g. like Debian or GRML ISOs do, and that keeps mkft.btrfs working? Many thanks, Thomas ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] Problems installing NixOS with btrfs from a USB stick
Hi! On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Thomas Strobel ts...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Hi there, I was running into problems when trying to install NixOS with btrfs from a USB stick. I downloaded the current .iso and used unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive from it. Unfortunately, the resulting installation environment did not allow to use mkfs.btrfs as it could not decide on the mounting status of my partition. It seemed as if unetbootin prepared the system in a way that prevented mkfs.btrfs from working. Did anyone else experience that problem? If so, then my question is if the .iso files could be changed in a way that allows to prepare the USB stick with a simple dd-command, e.g. like Debian or GRML ISOs do, and that keeps mkft.btrfs working? You could try installing syslinux and using isohybrid to create a hybrid bootable image which you can dd onto a USB stick: isohybrid filename.iso http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Doc/isolinux#HYBRID_CD-ROM.2FHARD_DISK_MODE I'm not sure if that will help with the btrfs issue, but it would be good to know if it worked. Good luck! Cillian ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
