[Nix-dev] Problem booting the new nixos kernel

[Tony White]

2009/4/28 Marco Maggesi <maggesi at math.unifi.it>:
>
> On Apr 27, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Sander van der Burg - EWI wrote:
>
>> I had the same problem. Select your virtual machine -> Pick settings ->
>> Select tab 'Advanced' -> Turn 'Enable PAE/NX' on.
>>
>> This should make it work under VirtualBox.
>>
> Yes, it works.  Thenk you!
>
> ---
>
> Unfortunately I get another error later in the boot process.
>
>
> <<< NixOS Stage 1 >>>
>
> /nix/store/lv1...5q-kernel-modules-shrunk/insmode-list: No such file or
> directory
> Failed to resume..
> dmsetup found, starting device mapper and lvm
> /proc/misc: No entry for device-mappe found
> Is device-mapper driver missing from kernnel?
> Failure to comunicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
> Command failed
> error while running Stage 1
> Stage 1 should mount the root partition containing the nix store on
> /mnt/root
>
>
> Press within 15 seconds:
>  i) to launch an interactive shell
>  f) to start an interactive shell having pid 1
>     (needed if you want to start Stage 2 manually)
> continuing ignoring error
>  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a whilw...
> waiting for device /dev/sda2 to appear........
> mounting /dev/sda2 on /...
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> error while running Stage 1
>
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You might need to add the extra modules required to mount the root
filesystem to configuration.nix and then nixos-rebuild boot. Or
configuration.nix could be missing the file system type attribute set
for the root file system.

Tony