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Author SHA1 Message Date
Vladimír Čunát
81fc066900 Merge #4678: nixos iso-image: support USB booting
by using syslinux (i.e. support the dd-method in addition to unetbootin).
@vcunat tidied the PR by squashing closely related changes together.
2015-03-31 15:12:16 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát
299da40f9f iso: make efi FS size adaptive, make deterministic
Fixes #6795.
This was co-authored with @bobvanderlinden.

(cherry picked from commit e19ac248ae59fd327c32b1ae3e37792c22a7c7ac)
Signed-off-by: Domen Kožar <domen@dev.si>

Conflicts:
	nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/iso-image.nix
2015-03-29 22:25:41 +02:00
Bob van der Linden
58112832a7 nixos: iso-image: use label "EFIBOOT" for efi.img 2015-03-24 22:15:32 +01:00
Bob van der Linden
f0fd1c9bcf nixos: iso-image: use memtest86 params in syslinux
See also #6593.
2015-03-24 22:15:11 +01:00
Bob van der Linden
9ff9949896 nixos: iso-image: removed com32 entries from syslinux menu
These entries result in incorrect entries when UNetbootin writes
the image to an USB disk.
2015-03-24 22:09:06 +01:00
Bob van der Linden
af68f24003 nixos: iso-image: solve UNetbootin compatiblity
There are a number of hidden restrictions on the syslinux
configuration file that come into play when UNetbootin
compatiblity is desired. With this commit these are documented.
2015-03-24 22:08:52 +01:00
Bob van der Linden
a12ddc1964 nixos: iso-image: use generic boot-loader timeout
Syslinux uses different values than grub for timeout.
It uses 1/10 seconds as its unit and it uses 0 to disable timeouts.

In response to PR #5772.
2015-03-24 22:03:30 +01:00
Bob van der Linden
8d092270d2 nixos: iso-image: use syslinux bootloader for USB booting support
This changes the bootloader for iso generation from Grub to
syslinux. In addition this adds USB booting support, so that
"dd" can be used to burn the generated ISO to USB thumbdrives
instead of needing applications like UnetBootin.
2015-03-24 22:01:04 +01:00
William A. Kennington III
42a6ac5209 nixos/iso: Increase efi image size to 15M 2015-02-07 20:38:24 -08:00
wmertens
0b34eb1493 Allow starting a shell on stage 1 failure
When people copy the ISO to USB it can happen that the root device isn't known. Having a shell greatly improves that situation.
2014-11-15 00:14:26 +01:00
Luca Bruno
7885c2ed12 Revert "nixos: iso-image: use syslinux bootloader for USB booting support"
This reverts commit 455db168b3.
2014-11-08 14:33:27 +01:00
Bob van der Linden
455db168b3 nixos: iso-image: use syslinux bootloader for USB booting support
This changes the bootloader for iso generation from Grub to
syslinux. In addition this adds USB booting support, so that
"dd" can be used to burn the generated ISO to USB thumbdrives
instead of needing applications like UnetBootin.
2014-11-02 17:35:16 +01:00
William A. Kennington III
1b63a1b75e nixos/iso-image: Fix grub-mkimage requiring a prefix 2014-09-03 09:26:44 -07:00
aszlig
8a56a55bb4
nixos/manual: Use literalExample when feasible.
Should bring most of the examples into a better consistency regarding
syntactic representation in the manual.

Thanks to @devhell for reporting.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
2014-08-27 23:41:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e68b0c7f5f Mount unionfs-fuse filesystems using the normal fileSystems option 2014-07-30 16:04:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f94f659a31 Don't require a device for tmpfs filesystems 2014-07-30 13:18:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5e364503d5 NixOS ISO: Don't use a unionfs for /
We don't need a unionfs on /, we only need a tmpfs.
2014-05-21 15:55:50 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
29027fd1e1 Rewrite ‘with pkgs.lib’ -> ‘with lib’
Using pkgs.lib on the spine of module evaluation is problematic
because the pkgs argument depends on the result of module
evaluation. To prevent an infinite recursion, pkgs and some of the
modules are evaluated twice, which is inefficient. Using ‘with lib’
prevents this problem.
2014-04-14 16:26:48 +02:00
Shea Levy
cc69da4314 Put /efi and /loader on the main livecd partition for efi booting with unetbootin
Fixes #248, mostly

Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2013-11-14 18:18:46 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
259f7a93b1 Rename environment.nix -> nix.package 2013-10-28 22:45:57 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5c1f8cbc70 Move all of NixOS to nixos/ in preparation of the repository merge 2013-10-10 13:28:20 +02:00
Renamed from modules/installer/cd-dvd/iso-image.nix (Browse further)