[Nix-dev] NixOS on MacBook dual boot

[Alexey Muranov]

On 12 août 2014, at 22:27, Paul Colomiets <paul at colomiets.name> wrote:

> You don't need another EFI
> partition, nixos should put it's own kernel into existing EFI
> partition, just mount it as /boot.

Should i mount it before running `nixos-generate-config`? If so, should i mount it at /boot or at /mnt/boot?

I have tried just the following sequence of commands:

    # swapon /dev/disk/by-lablel/swap
    # mount /dev/disk/bt-label/nixos /mnt
    # nixos-generate-config --root /mnt
    # nixos-install

It failed with the messages:

    building the system configuration...
    error: while evaluating the attribute `buildCommand' of the derivation
    `nixos-14.04.291.a4ac76b' at
    /mnt-nixpkgs/nixos/modules/system/activation/top-level.nix:100:7:
    [...]
    The option value `boot.extraModulePackages' in
    `/etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix' is not a list of paths.

I checked my hardware-configuration.nix, there i had

    boot.extraModulePackages = [ "config.boot.kernelPackages.broadcom-sta" ];

The `fileSystems` option had a single element:

    fileSystems."/" =
      { device = "/dev/sda5";
        fsType = "ext4";
      }

What is wrong?

Alexey.