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Use drive UUID instead of /dev name #49

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werner291 opened this issue Sep 25, 2019 · 0 comments
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Use drive UUID instead of /dev name #49

werner291 opened this issue Sep 25, 2019 · 0 comments

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werner291 commented Sep 25, 2019 •
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Greetings!

I recently ran into a bizzarre problem where my NixOS installation suddenly wouldn't boot.

As it turned out, through some mysterious shenanigans that I have yet to exorcize, /dev/sda1 no longer referred to the partition that contained NixOS, instead referring to a small partition that contained what appeared to be some old Debian-related junk. The NixOS installation was suddenly in /dev/sda2. I finally did get the installation to boot again after re-labeling things in the partition table.

Proposed fix: During stage 1, mount the drive by UUID instead of its' name in /dev.
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