February 21, 2024 at 4:54 AM, "Giovanni Biscuolo" <g...@xelera.eu> wrote:
> > Hello, > > following the good guidelines from (info "(guix-cookbook) Running Guix > on a Kimsufi Server") and (info "(guix-cookbook) Running Guix on a > Linode Server") I'm developing a shell script to automate the "manual" > installation of Guix on bare metal and VPS, you can find it attached to > this email as bootstrap-guix.sh or at this git repo URL: > https://gitlab.com/softwareworkers/swws/-/blob/master/infrastructure/hosts/cornouiller/bootstrap-guix.sh?ref_type=heads > > The main purpose of the script is to allow me to install Guix on > machines (bare metal or virtual) hosted by vendors who do not offer Guix > in their OS installation options, since almost all vendors provides a > rescue system that can be used to "manually" set up the environment, > partition the target disk and lastly "guix system init..." > > I've extensively tested the script locally (on bare metal and QEMU VMs), > both booting the machines via grml [1] and Guix install image and it > works as expected; I've also used it to install Guix on some bare metal. > > 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 just logged into my linode server...your script defaults to a btrfs filesystem right? When I tried to add an additional disk in linode just now, the only supported filesystem was ext4. Does linode support btrfs? Joshua > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > > Scanning for Btrfs filesystems > ice-9/boot9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception: > In procedure mount: No such file or directory > GRUB loading... > Entering a new prompt. Type ',bt' for a backtrace or ',q' to continue. > [...] > scheme@(guile-user)> ,bt > In gnu/build/linux-boot.scm: > 637:8 3 (_) > 435:8 2 (mount-root-filesystem "/dev/sda3" "btrfs" # _ #:flags ?) > In unknown file: > 1 (mount "/dev/sda3" "/root" "btrfs" 0 "compress=zstd") > In ice-9/boot9.scm: > 1685:16: 0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _) > > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > In particular, I don't understand why the boot script is trying to mount > the root filesystem at "/root" and not at "/" as it should: am I missing > something? > > I suspect that the issue depends on how the rescue system root is > mounted (overlay filesystem) but I'm not sure; I cannot find a solution. > > I'm also attaching: > > - bootstrap-config.scm: automatically generated by the script and used > by "guix system init..." > > - bootstrap-mount-points.txt: automatically collected during installation > > You can find all the files also here: > https://gitlab.com/softwareworkers/swws/-/tree/master/infrastructure/hosts/cornouiller?ref_type=heads > > Any idea please? :-O > > Happy hacking! Gio' > > [1] https://grml.org/, a rescue system based on Debian > > -- > Giovanni Biscuolo > > Xelera IT Infrastructures >
