[Nix-dev] Problems installing NixOS with btrfs from a USB stick
Lluís Batlle i Rossell
viric at viric.name
Wed Apr 16 09:31:21 CEST 2014
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 07:09:32AM +0200, Wout Mertens wrote:
> Actually, I wasn't being clear, I only fixed it for me :-)
I remember going through this too, two years ago. At some point I reported that
upstream, and as I didn't install anything else, I hoped someone fixed it.
> 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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