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Recovering from a bad installation
From: |
Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
Recovering from a bad installation |
Date: |
Sat, 05 Aug 2017 10:48:06 +0200 |
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mu4e 0.9.18; emacs 25.2.1 |
Hi Guix,
If you forgot to set the file system label for the root file system to the
label you specified in the operating system configuration file then you won't
be able to boot. Instead you'll end up in a recovery Guile REPL.
Here's what I did when I found myself in this very situation:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
,use (ice-9 ftw)
,use (srfi srfi-1)
,use (gnu build file-systems)
;; Mount the root file system by device handle
(mount-file-system '("/dev/sda1" any "/" "ext4" () #f #f) #:root "/")
;; Oops! We lost /dev! Let's find the "mount" tool.
(filter (lambda (f) (string-contains f "util-linux")) (scandir "/gnu/store"))
;; … pick out the directory that looks right
;; Mount /dev
(system*
"/gnu/store/6z06w9zfnq3zcr50vcv2wvzr5wpzvy7l-util-linux-2.29.2/bin/mount" "-t"
"devtmpfs" "none" "/dev")
;; Find e2label
(filter (lambda (f) (string-contains f "e2fsprogs")) (scandir "/gnu/store"))
;; … pick out the directory that looks right
;; Use it to change the label on /dev/sda1
(system*
"/gnu/store/jh49klm0gkns071jsa8f9jr7g3cdlfwz-e2fsprogs-1.43.4/sbin/e2label"
"/dev/sda1" "my-root")
;; reboot!
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
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Ricardo
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- Recovering from a bad installation,
Ricardo Wurmus <=