[Nix-dev] BootDevice Not Found

[Wout Mertens]

No ideas, in your place I'd consider switching to UEFI...

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014, 12:38 AM Dejan Lukan <evangeline.eleanor at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Recently I've installed NixOS on my new HP Ultrabook 850 Laptop, but I
> cannot boot into the system. Whenever I restart the
> livecd NixOS distribution, I get the following error message:
>
>   BootDevice Not Found
>   Please install an operating system on your hard disk.
>   Hard Disk - (3F0)
>
> But if I boot from CD and choose "Boot from hard drive", the Grub from
> original hard drive opens, which verifies that the bootloader
> is present on the /dev/sda. I'm relatively sure it's a BIOS problem, but I
> have a hard time figuring what could be wrong. I've disabled
> the RAID (and use AHCI) and the legacy booting mode is selected (not
> UEFI). Therefore grub1 should work fine as is installed on /dev/sda.
>
> Relevant part of the configuration.nix is presented below:
>
>
>   boot.loader.grub.enable = true;
>   boot.loader.grub.version = 1;
>   boot.loader.grub.device = "/dev/sda";
>   boot.initrd.luks.devices = [ { name = "system"; device = "/dev/sda2";
> preLVM = true; } ];
>   boot.initrd.luks.cryptoModules = ["aes" "sha256" "sha1" "cbc"];
>
>
> Any ideas about the error message. I guess it has something to do with
> BIOS, which can't look at the MBR of the hard drive
> in order to discover the Grub boot loader.
>
> Please provide any comments that might shed some light onto this problem.
>
>
>
>
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