Re: cannot boot after installation on VPS (via rescue system)

[Giovanni Biscuolo]

Hi Saku!

Saku Laesvuori <saku@laesvuori.fi> writes:

>>>> Now I'm trying to use it on two VPS from two different vendors, booted
>>>> in rescue mode, but after the installation (via bootstrap-guix.sh) when
>>>> I reboot the VPS I get the usual grub menu but the boot process suddenly
>>>> fails with this error (manually copied from web console, sorry for
>>>> possible typos):
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>> 
>> I'm not on Linode, I'm working on OVH and Hetzner VPSs
>
> I had to add "virtio_scsi" to initrd-modules to get Guix to boot on a
> Hetzner VPS. Maybe that could be the problem here, too?

Yes: you got it!

I asked Hetzner support to have the Guix installer ISO as "custom ISO"
and was able to do a guided install... and it (re)booted fine.  The
first thing that got my attention was this line in the working
config.scm:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---

(initrd-modules (append '("virtio_scsi") %base-initrd-modules))
 
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

...and it makes sense! [1]

I also missed that line in (info "(guix-cookbook) Running Guix on a
Linode Server") ;-(

I still have not tested that fix with my bootstrap-guix.sh installation
script, but I'm pretty sure it will work.

Thank you so much! Gio'


[1] I also need to enhance my qemu scripts needed for testing

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Giovanni Biscuolo

Xelera IT Infrastructures

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