[Nix-dev] Some NixOS beginner questions...
Ben Franksen
ben.franksen at online.de
Sat Apr 5 18:19:31 CEST 2014
Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> On 30/03/14 23:01, Ben Franksen wrote:
>
>> (2) It seems impossible to install NixOS w/o installing the boot loader.
>
> You can set:
>
> boot.loader.grub.device = "nodev";
>
> to prevent the installation of GRUB in the MBR while still generating a
> GRUB configuration in /boot that might be used for chainloading.
This is what I do now and it indeed works fine. (I was confused by the other
problem I had (installing from USB stick didn't work) and first thought it
had to do with not installing grub.)
> It should be possible to install on a partition as well, but that might
> not work
> with GRUB 2 due to the increased size (never tried).
I fixed that by creating a btrfs on some partition which is compatible with
grub2.
Thanks
Ben
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