[Nix-dev] NixOS on MacBook dual boot

[Paul Colomiets]

Hi Alexey

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Alexey Muranov
<alexey.muranov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i would like to try to install NixOS as a second OS on my MacBook 5,1.  What confuses me the most is the instruction from the manual to create an EFI System Partition that will be mounted at /boot, because a MacBook already has an EFI System Partition that is used by Mac OS.
>
> Could you please clarify to me how to be with the ESP(s) and how to configure what to mount at /boot?
>
> I have posted the question at http://superuser.com : http://superuser.com/questions/795879/how-to-configure-dual-boot-nixos-with-mac-os-x-on-an-uefi-macbook
>

I've not tried dual-boot of mac os and nixos, but I have experience of
dual-booting mac os with other linux, and dual-booting nixos with
other linux on EFI. Anyway, I think it should just work. IIRC, you
need to bless the nixos kernel from mac os. You don't need another EFI
partition, nixos should put it's own kernel into existing EFI
partition, just mount it as /boot.

If you have troubles you can ask more specific questions (however I do
not have access to a mac any more).

-- 
Paul