Daniel Lakeland <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi all.
>
> I built a raw disk image using guix system image. When I dd it to a USB 
> stick it boots my test laptop just fine. But when I dd it to the 
> /dev/mmcblk0 on that laptop, the laptop boots the image but it gets 
> stuck at
>
> waiting for partition 'UUID-HERE' to appear....
>
> and then drops into the guile REPL.
>
> I thought it might be because the initrd doesn't have the required 
> modules, so I scrolled through the dmesg when it boots off USB and 
> decided perhaps sdhci and rpmb_core are required and added this to the 
> definition of the image:
>
> (initrd-modules (cons* "sdhci" "rpmb_core" %base-initrd-modules))
>
> But it still does the same thing.
>
> Any ideas?

I think the issue here is that the image is a disk image, but you are
writing it on a partition (/dev/mmcblk0), I think you’re supposed to
write it on the whole disk (/dev/mmcblk).

This will delete your other partitions on that disk. So be careful.

Good day,
Noé

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