init script. This removes the need for the `systemConfig' boot
parameter; `init=<stage-2-init>' is enough. However, the GRUB menu
builder still needs to add `systemConfig' to the kernel command line
for compatibility with old configurations.
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like `build-vm', but boots using the regular boot loader (i.e. GRUB
1 or 2) rather than booting directly from the kernel/initrd. Thus
it allows testing of GRUB.
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root=... kernel command line parameter, instead of hard-coding it in
`fileSystems'. This is to allow CD-to-USB converters such as
UNetbootin to rewrite the kernel command line to the label or UUID
of the USB stick.
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we want to generate the GRUB menu without actually installing GRUB
(because Amazon supplies its own pv-grub), and each menu entry
requires "root (hd0)". For the first, allow boot.loader.grub.device
to be set to "nodev" to indicate that the GRUB menu should be
generated without installing GRUB. For the second, add an option
boot.loader.grub.extraPerEntryConfig to allow commands to be added
to each GRUB menu entry (in this case, "root (hd0)").
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grub.cfg before the menu entries. (This could also be done using
`extraEntriesBeforeNixOS', but then you can't have entries *after*
the main entry anymore.)
* In the installer test, redirect GRUB output to the serial port.
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What I want with this derivation is to allow the sheevaplug nixos to
build a tarball with all the needed files to boot. Then, this can be
unpacked into an SD card, or into a NFS/TFTP server, and then the
user can boot the system with help of the uboot console.
By now, I have only tried to build the tarball in a PC, in order
to develop the nix expressions quicker.
There is nothing written specialy for the Sheevaplug in all this,
by now.
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to the nixpkgs trunk 'kernelPackages'.
Seeing a strange kernelPackages mentioned in installation-cd-rescue (2.6.31_something) I
update that to 2.6.32.
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is done by instantiating a webserver that simulates nixos.org.
Using nix-push we create a channel that contains some stuff (namely
the GNU Hello source tarball and the rlwrap program). This was a
bit tricky because nix-push requires a writable Nix store. Using
AUFS this is possible, but not on recent Linux kernels (AUFS1 over
CIFS fails).
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19327
installation-cd-minimal.nix is now 2.6.32. Added most of its extra
tools to installation-cd-base.nix.
* Put memtest86 at the bottom of the GRUB menu. (There is currently
no good way to do this other than to change the module inclusion
order.)
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partition from /. If so, copy the kernels and initrds to /boot and
use paths relative to /boot in the GRUB configuration file. This
makes the boot.loader.grub.bootDevice option obsolete. (Is there a
way to mark obsolete options?) It also makes it unnecessary to set
boot.loader.grub.copyKernels, although that option is still
available since it can speed up GRUB if the Nix store is very
large.
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GRUB version changes. (That's the complete version from the name
attribute, not the boot.loader.grub.version attribute.) The current
version is recorded in /boot/grub/version. This is required to
prevent massive breakage when we change the default value of
boot.loader.grub.version to "2".
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expose makeInfo (used by test now)
expose config hack
* Adding tests to release.nix
* fixes
* removing dependency on perl
refactoring details:
Move all configuration modules used by the NixOS installation test script
into one directory.
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is not on the same partition as /boot (i.e. when
boot.loader.grub.bootDevice is set): just copy the background image
and the font to /boot.
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modules that should be added to the initrd, but should only be
loaded on demand (e.g. by the kernel or by udev). This is
especially useful in the installation CD, where we now only load the
modules needed by the hardware.
* Enable automatic modprobing by udev in the initrd.
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You can run the kvm nixos installation test by:
nix-build --no-out-link tests/test-nixos-install-from-cd.nix
It boots the installed system.
It still fails sshd isn't started (yet)
adding nixos-bootstrapping-archive:
You can install NixOS easily using any live cd now.
See README-BOOTSTRAP-NIXOS
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qemu_kvm. Installation doesn't take place yet. VM is started
printing a remote controlled "Hello".
This serves as example how to run a vm within a bulid job.
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the /init and /system symlinks on the CD (since it removes the
cyclic dependency between building the Grub menu and the system
derivation).
svn path=/nixos/branches/upstart-0.6/; revision=18344
stdenv-updates stuff. Still to be reviewed, but at least an implementation to have
some different armv5tel-linux platforms: qemu versatile and the sheevaplug.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18290
* Replace an obscure piece of code by its equivalent based on the
recursiveUpdate function. Undefined the obsolete name of
boot.grubDevice to avoid conflicts.
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* Renamed some of the new Grub options to more sensible names
(e.g. extraGrubEntries to extraEntries, bootMount to bootDevice,
etc.).
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grub. Its options are no more inside 'boot', but inside 'boot.loader.grub'.
I added a new bootloader configuration for nixos, generationsDir. It creates
/boot/default/{init,initrd,kernel,system} symlinks, and the same for the generations
in /boot/system-$gen/{init,initrd,kernel,system}.
I can program the u-boot loader to load /boot/default files always, and have
a minimal nixos boot loader installer functionality. Additionally, I can refer
to the other system generations easily, with a simple 'ls' in /boot.
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