Re[2]: [Nix-dev] new user impressions

[Michael Raskin]

> >> Finally I've solved this problem chrooting into my Debian system and
> >> getting connection up from there. Installation went smoothly, but in the
> >> end there was a failure to install grub loader for some reason. Message
> >> was something like "grub/stage1 not read", and there was no changes to
> >> my boot loader.
> >
> > This sounds a lot like the grub problems that others had two weeks ago or 
> > so (also "grub/stage1 not read").  The cause was that the latest version 
> > of mke2fs generates ext2/ext3 filesystems that Grub can't read (due to 
> > the size of inodes having changed from 128 to 256 bytes).  We have now 
> > added a patch to Grub that fixes this.  The latest ISOs  
> > (http://nixos.org/releases/nixos/nixos-0.1pre11797-7811s3qf/) should 
> > include this fix.  What version did you download?
> 
> I downloaded nixos-0.1pre11797-i686-linux.iso, and ext2 filesystem was
> created using mke2fs 1.40.8, inode size is indeed 256.

Please, can you check if it is reproducible under QEmu? With exactly your setup. The same /boot placement, same types of partitions etc. Do you have any extra options on the partition?