[Nix-dev] Problems installing NixOS with btrfs from a USB stick
Wout Mertens
wout.mertens at gmail.com
Wed Apr 16 07:09:32 CEST 2014
Actually, I wasn't being clear, I only fixed it for me :-)
Sorry...
On Apr 16, 2014 3:11 AM, "Thomas Strobel" <ts468 at cam.ac.uk> 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" <shados at shados.net> 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
> > <ts468 at cam.ac.uk> 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
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