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 <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
