[Nix-dev] Unable to install NixOS unstable in UEFI system

[José Romildo Malaquias]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 06:30:12AM +0200, Wout Mertens wrote:
> It looks like you are trying to do a UEFI boot but not providing the
> correct partition mounted in /boot.
> 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gummiboot#Updating

The installation guide does not mention the need to mount /boot before
installation. The above link refers to installing Gummiboot on
archlinux, where the OS has already been installed, which is a very
different situation.

Besides that, when installing NixOS from the installation media, there
is alread a /boot directory, although it probably refers to the boot
from the installation media, not the one for the installed system.

And in a previous installation I have done a few months ago, it worked
without the need of any additional action regarding /boot.

So it seems there is a bug in the installation process.

>  On Apr 27, 2014 2:15 PM, "José Romildo Malaquias" <j.romildo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello.
> >
> > When installation NixOS unstable on my x86_64 notebook, I am getting
> > the error
> >
> >   Failed to check file system type of /boot: No such file or directory
> >
> > The log file is attached, as well as the configuration I am using.
> >
> > A few months ago I had successfully installed NixOS unstalbe on this
> > system without any major issues.
> >
> > I have followed the instructions in the manual at
> >
> > http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/trunk-combined/nixos.manual.x86_64-linux/latest/download-by-type/doc/manual
> >
> > Any clues?