[Nix-dev] pxe, network driver at stage 1

[Sergey Mironov]

I'll do it if I overcome problems. But I am afraid that current
easiest way - boot gentoo live cd (using pxe, it works) and than
follow 'booting nixos from linux' wiki.

2012/8/3  <js at lastlog.de>:
>
> it would be great if you could add a wiki article about how to setup a
> minimal "pxelinux boot" with NixOS! or maybe you could even create a
> virtual machine image?
>
> i would like to have such a setup as well but currently lack the time
> looking into it.
>
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 12:50:15 +0400, Sergey Mironov <ierton at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi. I'm trying to boot Nixos using pxe (network booting).
>>
>> pxelinux.0 (probably part of syslinux - I can't remember it's origin
>> on my server) helped me to boot stage 1.
>> Unfortunately, it turned out that /dev/root is not set and thus nixos
>> can't mount /mnt/root and nix-store.squashfs image. And more - looks
>> like stage 1 doesn't want to load my network module so I have no
>> network access to download it manually.
>>
>> Can anyone confirm that stage 1 bootcd kernel has no LAN support (and
>> thus it is not my local HW problem)?
>>
>> Sergey
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