Re: Troubles with install image

[Ludovic Courtès]

David Thompson <address@hidden> skribis:

> David Thompson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> From reading gnu/system/install.scm file, I would expect it to install
>> the guix dev package, not the 0.6 release.  I'm quite confused.
>
> Okay, so as a hack I edited the package definition for guix 0.6 so that
> it would skip the test suite.  I was able to complete the installation
> this way.
>
> Unfortunately, when I booted I was greeted by a kernel panic:
>
> In 
> /gnu/store/1xi72srwwr0q28gyxb4zq5gz408zpd-module-import/guix/build/linux-initrd.scm:
>  630: 2 [boot-system # # # ...]
>  371: 1 [configure-qemu-networking "eth0"]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 0 [network-interface-flags #<input-output: socket 5> "eth0"]
>    
> ERROR: In procedure network-interface-flags: No such device

In 0.6, the default initrd would try to setup QEMU networking by
default, which is bound to fail here.

I’ll investigate why it’s installing 0.6, why Guix fails to build on
i686, and report back.

Thanks for your perseverance!

Ludo’.