[Nix-dev] boot problem: stage1 repair console doesn't work under VirtualBox

[Sergey Mironov]

On my real machine I've tried
nixos-minimal-13.10.35608.1e7192a-x86_64-linux.iso from the official
site. In VirtualBox test I used manually built image, sources were
forked from 5898d854da459526ef032db1ad081a6eebbd772d.

Regards,
Sergey

2014-02-05 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name>:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 12:00:05PM +0400, Sergey Mironov wrote:
>> I've tried this approach on a real machine, the result is the same.
>
> Does it happen with a master iso image? At some point, we missed the atkbd
> module in stage 1.
>
> In case of a USB keyboard, something similar may happen.
>
>> 2014-02-05 Sergey Mironov <grrwlf at gmail.com>:
>> > Hi! Looks like stage1 repair console can't read user input, at least
>> > under VirtualBox. Here is how to reproduce the problem:
>> > 1. Boot VirtualBox with NixOS minimal installation CD attached
>> > 2. Press 'e' in the grub to edit kernel command line
>> > 3. Add bood.debug1 kernel argument
>> > 4. Boot
>> >
>> > Repair console appears but It doesn't react on key presses. It feels
>> > like /dev/tty1 hangs while trying to read something (bash 'read'
>> > operator). Note that system doesn't hang in general, other processes
>> > continue to work  (I have carried out some experiments with inserting
>> > "( while true ; do echo -n . ; sleep 1; done) &" into stage-1 script)
>> >
>> > Any ideas on how to fix it?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Sergey
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