Hi,

"J. Sims" <jts...@protonmail.com> skribis:

> I managed to successfully install the GNU Guix 1.4.0rc2 system iso on
> an HP Dev One laptop (with help from USB stuff for
> networking). Everything mostly went as expected, except after the
> installation I got a screen saying crypttab couldn't find a specific
> partition.

What’s crypttab?  At which point exactly does this screen appears:
before GRUB, after GRUB, once the Linux kernel has booted?

> I assume this was something left over from a previous OS installation
> since wiping the partitions with cfdisk and then installing worked
> fine. Note that while my initial install attempts did use encryption,
> the final (successful) one did not; I don't think this has any effect
> one way or the other on the viability of installation since I ran into
> the same issue both with and without an encrypted Guix installation
> before wiping the partitions.

OK.

> Hopefully it should be simple enough to just completely rewrite the partition 
> table during installation and sidestep this issue.

Normally the installer will rewrite the partition table, unless (I
think) you choose to keep things unchanged.

Thanks,
Ludo’.



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