[Nix-dev] NixOS Xen guest and blkfront

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 14/05/12 10:45, Alexander Foremny wrote:

> Then / remains mounted in read-only mode and thus NixOS cannot start
> up any services. This is an error that seems to be known [2]. There it
> is suggested to mount the root partition with barrier=0 option. I
> edited /boot/grub/menu.lst and appended the following option to the
> kernel line.
> 
>> rootflags=barrier=0

I don't think this flag has any effect, because our initrd doesn't look at it
when mounting the root filesystem.  But it does use the "options" fileSystem
attribute.

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