Re: GuixSD 0.11.0 Install

2016-08-29 Thread Marc Dunivan
David, That was the problem...I changed the user name to all lowercase, and successfully booted into the installed system.

Re: GuixSD 0.11.0 Install

2016-08-25 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
>The GuixSD system install (desktop) seemed to install successfully. However, >when booting into the new system (non-UEFI) a kernel panic occurs. Something >about "Kernel panic - not syncing : Attempted to kill init!" This is not the original problem. What does it say right above it? Usually it

Re: GuixSD 0.11.0 Install

2016-08-24 Thread David Craven
Thank you Marius and Vincent for your corrections. @Marc So I retested it and the only problem with your configuration is the username. According to stackoverflow: > To be on the safe side of things, follow the same rules of a C identifier: > ([a-z_][a-z0-9_]{0,30}) [0] http://stackoverflow.com

Re: GuixSD 0.11.0 Install

2016-08-24 Thread David Craven
Well these are the steps I took to get it to boot through guix system vm. The filesystem stuff gets overwritten by the routines in vm.scm, but it causes the services to fail to start. >>> (name "Marc") >> >> doesn't like capitalized user-names > Is that not enforced by "guix system" ? > maybe it

Re: GuixSD 0.11.0 Install

2016-08-24 Thread Vincent Legoll
>> (device "my-root") >> (device "my-boot") > > device should be a path to the device node and should look something > like /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2. > >> (title 'label) > >> (title 'label) > > remove these Are you sure ? I have similar setup (mount-by-label) and it is working, or did I misundersto

Re: GuixSD 0.11.0 Install

2016-08-24 Thread Marius Bakke
David Craven writes: >> (device "my-root") > >> (device "my-boot") > > device should be a path to the device node and should look something > like /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2. > >> (title 'label) > >> (title 'label) > > remove these (title 'label) instructs the boot routine to look for a partition o

Re: GuixSD 0.11.0 Install

2016-08-24 Thread David Craven
Hi Marc, > (device "my-root") > (device "my-boot") device should be a path to the device node and should look something like /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2. > (name "Marc") doesn't like capitalized user-names > (title 'label) > (title 'label) remove these This should give you a working setup. On

Re: GuixSD 0.11.0 Install

2016-08-23 Thread Marc Dunivan
David, I will look into going the vm route. This is my config.scm: ; This is an operating system configuration template ;; for a "desktop" setup with GNOME and Xfce. (use-modules (gnu) (gnu system nss)) (use-service-modules desktop) (use-package-modules certs) (operating-system (host-name "pen

Re: GuixSD 0.11.0 Install

2016-08-23 Thread David Craven
Hi Marc, The error message you describe occurs when PID 1 exits. Can you post your guixsd configuration so that we can reproduce the error? Have you tried running `guix system vm my-guixsd-configuration.scm`? That should give you the same error and should help debugging this. David

GuixSD 0.11.0 Install

2016-08-23 Thread Marc Dunivan
Guix SD Developers: Thank you for your work on GuixSD. I attempted a GuixSD 0.11.0 x86_64 install from USB onto a Think Penguin Penguin Wee (Intel NUC). I was able image and boot to the USB without issue. Even partitioning the internal SATA/SSD drive (MBR not GPT) and setting up the WiFi was s