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Tuomas Tynkkynen
df86813d97 nixos: Add derivations for SD card installation images on ARM
The resulting image can be copied to a SD card with `dd` and is directly
bootable by a suitably configured U-Boot. Though depending on the board, some
extra steps are required for copying U-Boot itself to the SD card.

Inside the image is a partition table, with a FAT32 /boot and a normal
writable EXT4 rootfs. It's possible to directly reuse the SD image's
partition layout and "install" NixOS on the same SD card by replacing
the default configuration.nix and nixos-rebuild, and actually is the
preferred way to use these images. To assist in this installation
method, the boot scripts on the image automatically resize the rootfs
partition to fit the SD card on the first boot.

The SD images come in two flavors; one for the ARMv6 Raspberry Pi,
and one multiplatform image for all the boards supported by the
mainline kernel's multi_v7_defconfig config target. At the moment, these
have been tested on:
    - Raspberry Pi Model B (512MB model)
    - NVIDIA Jetson TK1
    - Linksprite pcDuino3 Nano

To build, run:

nix-build '<nixpkgs/nixos>' -A config.system.build.sdImage \
    -I nixos-config='<nixpkgs/nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/sd-image-armv7l-multiplatform.nix>'
2015-07-26 00:31:20 +03:00
Eelco Dolstra
6948c3ab80 Installer: Add nomodeset and blacklist the nouveau driver
I observed a hang at the moment the nouveau driver gets loaded on a
GTX 970.
2015-07-25 19:06:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
174dd0eae7 Fix description of boot.consoleLogLevel 2015-07-25 19:06:07 +02:00
William A. Kennington III
4b836fb680 nixos/installer: Add grub2_efi to the store so that it is available to install 2015-07-05 19:11:56 -07:00
aszlig
f9bd72f24c
nixos/iso-image: Allow to customize menu label.
It comes in handy to alter the menu label if you're not building a NixOS
installer image but for example if you want to build a live system and
still want to re-use the iso-image.nix module.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
2015-06-28 23:30:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e5db79a859 Move stuff to modules/profiles/installation-device.nix 2015-06-10 15:28:55 +02:00
Tuomas Tynkkynen
16165ddc38 install-cd: Include nixos-artwork to fix installer tests
Should fix at least nixos.tests.installer.simple.x86_64-linux
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/23001712:

machine# error: cannot download Encode-Locale-1.03.tar.gz from any mirror
machine# builder for ‘/nix/store/y8gbx2d2fdcvvjy1z53xksfgq66ydlx0-Encode-Locale-1.03.tar.gz.drv’ failed with exit code 1
machine# cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/y1knci7rix3asnh2b4kfv8jhl2j99xih-perl-Encode-Locale-1.03.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
machine# cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/7xspjwh48kg16drv1jjg5cffaqbxbp8p-perl-libwww-perl-6.05.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
machine# cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/8qsmz3bbk1jwhh50c3i9700bkmn8ns5c-nss-cacert-3.19.1.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
machine# cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/0rgf2l3mdszs4a989ympwc9gk2k8wq6z-nixos-artwork-e71b684.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built
...
2015-06-08 19:12:59 +03:00
William A. Kennington III
514a9fdf87 Merge pull request #8173 from dezgeg/pr-kernel-config
kernel-config: Enable framebuffer console for BIOS systems & /proc/config.gz for ARM
2015-06-07 10:14:51 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
6bf1853387 Don't include 4 editors in the minimal installation CD
Emphasis on "minimal".
2015-06-04 11:06:44 +02:00
Tuomas Tynkkynen
9c2f2bc893 kernel-config: Enable FB_VESA and FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE
Commit 159fed47bc (nixos/grub: Fix video display on efi) changed BIOS
systems to start in non-text mode as well. Enable FB_VESA to get a
framebuffer console on BIOS systems. Change FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE to 'y'
instead of the default 'm' to so the user doesn't need to manually load
the fbcon module anymore.

Other distros have similar defaults, at least on Arch:
    CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
    CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
and on Ubuntu (12.04):
    CONFIG_FB_VESA=m
    CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y

Fixes #8139
2015-06-04 11:26:20 +03:00
Luca Bruno
c12e1d7278 minimal-iso: enable nixos-manual 2015-06-02 18:14:45 +02:00
lethalman
f2870bd77d Merge pull request #7601 from cstrahan/iso-name-fix
nixos: fix infinite recursion in isoImage.isoName
2015-05-04 10:24:38 +02:00
Ricardo M. Correia
f5e7190572 nixos.system_tarball_pc: Fix evaluation
It was broken due to 57b05765c9.

ZFS requires `networking.hostId` to be set.
2015-04-28 17:15:02 +02:00
Charles Strahan
a64e90bdef nixos: fix infinite recursion in isoImage.isoName 2015-04-27 23:10:53 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
57b05765c9 Don't include ntfs-3g by default
Issue #7117.
2015-04-19 22:06:45 +02:00
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
William A. Kennington III
4868649f03 nixos/initrd: Generic library copying 2015-03-28 18:37:29 -07:00
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
Domen Kožar
48a282b913 http://nixos.org -> https://nixos.org
(cherry picked from commit 78bb17dd22e4da4e3810fbc78185d73bb25ea73e)
Signed-off-by: Domen Kožar <domen@dev.si>
2014-12-14 11:26:45 +01:00
Domen Kožar
85daeeb222 Merge pull request #4639 from lethalman/installer-nm
kde installer: enable networkmanager. Closes #3433
2014-11-21 22:29:10 +01:00
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
wmertens
dda62c451c Re-enable ZFS in installer image
Hopefully #4807 fixes http://hydra.nixos.org/build/16883184
2014-11-13 10:31:15 +01:00
Ricardo M. Correia
e9affb4274 nixos: Add system-wide option to set the hostid
The old boot.spl.hostid option was not working correctly due to an
upstream bug.

Instead, now we will create the /etc/hostid file so that all applications
(including the ZFS kernel modules, ZFS user-space applications and other
unrelated programs) pick-up the same system-wide host id. Note that glibc
(and by extension, the `hostid` program) also respect the host id configured in
/etc/hostid, if it exists.

The hostid option is now mandatory when using ZFS because otherwise, ZFS will
require you to force-import your ZFS pools if you want to use them, which is
undesirable because it disables some of the checks that ZFS does to make sure it
is safe to import a ZFS pool.

The /etc/hostid file must also exist when booting the initrd, before the SPL
kernel module is loaded, so that ZFS picks up the hostid correctly.

The complexity in creating the /etc/hostid file is due to having to
write the host ID as a 32-bit binary value, taking into account the
endianness of the machine, while using only shell commands and/or simple
utilities (to avoid exploding the size of the initrd).
2014-11-12 22:31:49 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
433a845081 Disable zfs in the ISO for now
It's giving zpool-import.service errors.

http://hydra.nixos.org/build/16883184
2014-11-12 15:32:21 +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
Luca Bruno
e3611709d6 Revert "nixos: installation: make installation ISOs USB bootable"
This reverts commit b7f6a138b1.
2014-11-08 14:33:27 +01:00
Peter Simons
b5fed52c43 Merge pull request #4238 from wkennington/master.boost
Make boost 156 the default
2014-11-03 23:03:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f496c3cbe4 Obsolete security.initialPassword
You can now set users.extraUsers.root.initialHashedPassword instead.
2014-11-03 12:36:56 +01:00
William A. Kennington III
5ae216558f jfsrec: Remove derivation 2014-11-02 17:22:27 -08:00
Bob van der Linden
b7f6a138b1 nixos: installation: make installation ISOs USB bootable 2014-11-02 17:35:16 +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
Luca Bruno
6bb278659f kde installer: enable networkmanager. Closes #3433 2014-11-02 15:23:22 +01:00
William A. Kennington III
8636d93f54 Merge pull request #4213 from wkennington/master.zfsiso
[Dont Merge] nixos-iso: Add zfs / btrfs to supportedFilesystems
2014-10-25 18:01:17 -07:00
Luca Bruno
e553e27f48 kde installer: Add gparted, nixos manual and konsole in the desktop 2014-10-23 18:59:25 +02:00
William A. Kennington III
5118dcf4fb nixos-iso: Add zfs / btrfs to supportedFilesystems 2014-10-14 20:24:43 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
1f7c775910 Remove unrar from the installation CD since it's unfree 2014-09-05 14:25:17 +02:00
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
Shea Levy
b3cfb9084b Get all lib functions from lib, not pkgs.lib, in modules 2014-07-02 12:28:18 -04:00
William A. Kennington III
86711e4120 nixos-iso: Re-enable new kernel iso images (close #2839) 2014-06-17 21:23:52 +02:00
William A. Kennington III
ab29b6527f nixos-iso: Use a simpler disk label
When formatting a nixos usb using my windows machine I noticed that the
disk labeling using periods was not compatible with my linux kernel /
udev recognition. When labeling a volume NIXOS_14.10 under Windows, it would
show up as NIXOS_14_10 on NixOS. This meant that /dev/root would never come
up at boot time, preventing the livecd from starting.

This patch works around this issue by eliminating any special characters
other than underscores. The previous versioning didn't seem all that
useful, especially when consdering there are many different version of
the year.month named iso.
2014-06-08 15:53:45 -05:00
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
48768f3129 NixOS ISO: Set empty root password 2014-05-21 12:04:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3fe96bcca1 Rename hardware.opengl.videoDrivers back to services.xserver.videoDrivers
Fixes #2379.
The new name was a misnomer because the values really are X11 video
drivers (e.g. ‘cirrus’ or ‘nvidia’), not OpenGL implementations. That
it's also used to set an OpenGL implementation for kmscon is just
confusing overloading.
2014-04-29 14:42:36 +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
Eelco Dolstra
e2bc9a3d14 Include Archive::Cpio in the installation CD
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/10268978
2014-04-11 17:16:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
819e7c9fbd Add a test for NixOS containers 2014-04-03 16:36:24 +02:00
Pascal Wittmann
ff7e234fb4 Removed obsolete option services.xserver.videoDriver 2014-02-18 23:13:00 +01:00
Pascal Wittmann
516cdc25a4 Renamed obsolete option services.xserver.videoDrivers to hardware.opengl.videoDrivers 2014-02-18 23:11:49 +01:00
Ricardo M. Correia
cba2444d11 nixos/memtest: Allow user to specify memtest86 boot parameters 2014-02-09 13:55:37 +01:00
Shea Levy
d6ef65cb6a Limit livecd label to 11 characters
vfat partition labels can only be 11 characters long

Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2014-02-03 17:05:04 -05:00
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
785eaf2cea Add some primops to lib 2013-11-12 13:48:30 +01:00
Shea Levy
cd9786eed2 Fold efi booting into the default livecd
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2013-11-01 11:29:36 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
4ccd9fdace Remove unused file 2013-10-31 13:28:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
760d0a00dc Fix mkOverride call 2013-10-29 01:15:17 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
30a36f9a80 Remove remaining uses of mkOverrideTemplate 2013-10-28 22:45:58 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
259f7a93b1 Rename environment.nix -> nix.package 2013-10-28 22:45:57 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8485487727 Get rid of <nixpkgs> 2013-10-15 17:52:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
31203732b3 Update the release expressions and the channel generators 2013-10-10 13:28:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5c1f8cbc70 Move all of NixOS to nixos/ in preparation of the repository merge 2013-10-10 13:28:20 +02:00