[Nix-dev] new user impressions

[Roman Cheplyaka]

* Michael Raskin <7c6f434c at mail.ru> [2008-05-20 15:47:32+0400]
> > >> 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? 

I don't use separate /boot partition, if you mean this.
I'll try with QEmu when I have time (hopefully this week).

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