* On 2014 20 Sep 15:36 -0500, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> FWIW a recipe to install the system in a VM was posted at
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-09/msg00149.html>
> (also read subsequent messages for troubleshooting.)
Trying the method shown in the referenced thread, except for having a
separate swap image, left me with a very slow system to boot. It took
about two minutes for the Grub menu to appear and then I gave up after
several minutes of no indication that the kernel would ever start. I
suspect the VM had device contention between competing /dev/sda devices.
I went back to the way I had originally had success booting the USB
image file and now my target hard disk is /dev/sdb1. Looking at the SCM
template in section 6.1.4 of the installation manual, I see the function
template:
(bootloader (grub-configuration (device "/dev/sdX")))
Is it possible to specify a UUID for the device here? That would be
unambiguous as when the new installation is started, it should be
/dev/sda but is presently /dev/sdb. Am I over thinking this?
- Nate
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