[Nix-dev] NixOS on MacBook: freeze at bootloader

[Aristid Breitkreuz]

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Am 27.02.2014 11:22 schrieb "Johannes Raggam" <raggam-nl at adm.at>:

> ha, found the problem!
>
> somehow the partition numbers of my harddrive were renumbered, and i
> wasn't using UIDs. 'nixos-option --install' didn't work, so it the
> hardware-configuration.nix wasn't updated. (if i understood the process
> correctly).
>
> after booting from sdcard and mounting the drives to /mnt and /mnt/boot,
> i just had to fix /mnt/etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix:
>
>   fileSystems."/" =
>     { device = "/dev/sda8";
>       fsType = "ext4";
>       options = "rw,data=ordered,relatime";
>     };
>
>   fileSystems."/boot" =
>     { device = "/dev/sda7";
>       fsType = "vfat";
>       options =
>
> "rw,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro,relatime";
>     };
>
>
> rerun nixos-install and was done!
>
> johannes
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 11:04 +0100, Johannes Raggam wrote:
> > hey there,
> >
> > i've installed NixOS on my macbook air (with the help of cilian and
> > garbas). that worked fine some weeks ago.
> >
> > but now, after upgrade to OSX mavericks, i cant boot into it anymore (i
> > use fedora at the moment, so i'm not hurt). it freezes at the
> > bootloader. it's an EFI setup. i was using rEFIt, but removed it as i
> > found out that i can choose the startup partition by holding down the
> > <alt> key while starting up.
> >
> > i reinstalled NixOS (latest unstable minimal ISO from yesterday or the
> > day before. booting from SDCARD worked fine), followed advices and used
> > seperate vfat /boot partition, ext4 /root, EFI boot.
> > it still freezes after choosing the EFI boot partition from MacBooks
> > built-in bootloader.
> >
> > relevant config options:
> >
> >   boot.loader.grub.enable = false;
> >   boot.loader.gummiboot.enable = true;
> >   boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;
> >
> >
> > any ideas?
> >
> > johannes
> >
> >
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