Thanks Daniel and Ludovic for the helpful information. I will try to install again over the coming days and report my progress.
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) <clacke+gm...@lysator.liu.se> wrote: > On 30-Jun-2015 3:08 pm, "Ludovic Courtès" <l...@gnu.org> wrote: >> Evan Rowley <rowley.e...@gmail.com> skribis: >> >> > (file-systems (cons (file-system >> > (device >> > "/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593-part3") >> > (title "root") >> > (mount-point "/") >> > (type "ext4")) >> > %base-file-systems)) >> >> You should be using something like: >> >> (file-system >> (title 'label) >> (device "ata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593-part3") >> (mount-point "/") >> (type "ext4")) >> >> It literally means: Mount the block device whose label (in the ext[234] >> sense) is “ata-WDC_WD20EURS-63SPKY0_WD-WMC300539593-part3”. >> >> The root file system is mounted from the initrd, when udev is not >> running; thus /dev/disk/by-id is not available yet, and it’s important >> to use this 'label mechanism instead. > > So *that's* what the mysterious (title 'label) means! > > -- > /c -- - EJR
