This module generates a /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf bootloader
configuration file that is supported by e.g. U-Boot:
http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=doc/README.distro;hb=refs/heads/master
With this, all ARM boards supported by U-Boot can be booted in a common
way (a single boot file generator, all boards booting via initrd like
x86) and with same boot menu functionality as GRUB has.
-- sample extlinux.conf file --
# Generated file, all changes will be lost on nixos-rebuild!
# Change this to e.g. nixos-42 to temporarily boot to an older configuration.
DEFAULT nixos-default
TIMEOUT 50
LABEL nixos-default
MENU LABEL NixOS - Default
LINUX ../nixos/n7vxfk60nb5h0mcbhkwwxhcz2q2nvxzv-linux-4.1.0-rc3-cpufreq-zImage
INITRD ../nixos/0ss2zs8sb6d1qn4gblxpwlxkfjsgs5f0-initrd-initrd
FDTDIR ../nixos/n7vxfk60nb5h0mcbhkwwxhcz2q2nvxzv-linux-4.1.0-rc3-cpufreq-dtbs
APPEND systemConfig=/nix/store/469qvr43ln8bfsnk5lzcz6m6jfcgdd4r-nixos-15.06.git.0b7a7a6M init=/nix/store/469qvr43ln8bfsnk5lzcz6m6jfcgdd4r-nixos-15.06.git.0b7a7a6M/init loglevel=8 console=ttyS0,115200n8 drm.debug=0xf
LABEL nixos-71
MENU LABEL NixOS - Configuration 71 (2015-05-17 21:32 - 15.06.git.0b7a7a6M)
LINUX ../nixos/n7vxfk60nb5h0mcbhkwwxhcz2q2nvxzv-linux-4.1.0-rc3-cpufreq-zImage
INITRD ../nixos/0ss2zs8sb6d1qn4gblxpwlxkfjsgs5f0-initrd-initrd
FDTDIR ../nixos/n7vxfk60nb5h0mcbhkwwxhcz2q2nvxzv-linux-4.1.0-rc3-cpufreq-dtbs
APPEND systemConfig=/nix/store/469qvr43ln8bfsnk5lzcz6m6jfcgdd4r-nixos-15.06.git.0b7a7a6M init=/nix/store/469qvr43ln8bfsnk5lzcz6m6jfcgdd4r-nixos-15.06.git.0b7a7a6M/init loglevel=8 console=ttyS0,115200n8 drm.debug=0xf
It seems like there's an upstream bug in the "lpstat" command. We need
to specify the server's port.
Further information: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=711327
[root@client:~]# lpstat -H
/var/run/cups/cups.sock
[root@client:~]# lpstat -h server -H
/var/run/cups/cups.sock:631
[root@client:~]# CUPS_SERVER=server lpstat -H
server:631
[root@client:~]# lpstat -h server:631 -H
server:631
It seems like there's an upstream bug in the "lpstat" command. We need
to specify the server's port.
Further information: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=711327
[root@client:~]# lpstat -H
/var/run/cups/cups.sock
[root@client:~]# lpstat -h server -H
/var/run/cups/cups.sock:631
[root@client:~]# CUPS_SERVER=server lpstat -H
server:631
[root@client:~]# lpstat -h server:631 -H
server:631
This reverts commit d170c98d13.
niksnut argues that we need smaller system closures, not bigger.
So users facing the trouble of getting gcc rebuilds after nix-collect-garbage
for any minimal nixos configuration change should use other means of
not losing the stdenv output.
One way is to keep one somewhere: nix-build -A stdenv -o stdenv '<nixpkgs>'.
Another may be to use nix.conf options like gc-keep-outputs, gc-keep-derivations
or env-keep-derivations.
This will help a lot on ARM, where nix-collect-garbage erases gcc; then, any
change to a small system config file requires rebuilding gcc again.
I don't know why it does not happen on x86. Maybe it just pulls the gcc from
hydra, if garbage is collected.
It boots, but some things still don't work:
1) Installation of DTBs
2) Boot of initrd
Booting still needs a proper config.txt in /boot, which could probably be
managed by NixOS.
During the refactor of the networkd stuff in f8dbe5f, a lot of the
options are now needed by systemd.nix as well as networkd.nix but
weren't moved by that commit as well.
For now, this fixes all networkd VM tests except for the macvlan one and
thus it should fix #7505 for at least DHCP-based configuration.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
In f8dbe5f, the default value for networking unit "enabled" option
suddenly flipped to false. I have no idea of whether this happened by
accident, but I'm setting it to true again, because it essentially
breaks systemd networking support and we have systemd.network.enable to
have a "turn the world off" switch.
And of course, because the mentioned commit obviously wasn't done with
even a run of the simplest run of one of the network VM tests, we now
get an evaluation error if we switch useNetworkd to true.
Fixes the core issue of #7505.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Passing the chroot flag to nixos-install without arguments should now give you a
Bash shell as intended rather than try an empty path.
This was masked by the user's shell (usually /bin/bash) being defaulted to by
chroot, and being found since their paths used NixOS conventions.
When bootstrapping from other distributions, nixos-install is unable to find
various tools in the chroot since their paths aren't aware of NixOS conventions.
This makes a small change to existing code by specifying nixpkgs/nixos instead
of just nixos when running nix-instantiate in the chroot. I haven't tested this
outside of bootstrapping, but the same specification is used elsewhere in the
code so I don't see why it wouldn't work.
