Actually, I wasn't being clear, I only fixed it for me :-) Sorry... On Apr 16, 2014 3:11 AM, "Thomas Strobel" <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]> 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 > > <[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 > > >
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