[Nix-dev] NixOS Live CD (Graphic) Boot Failure

[Raahul Kumar]

This error message you're getting

ata1: irq-stat 0x00000040, connection status changed
ata1: SError { DevExch }
ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x40000000 action 0xe frozen

Means your SATA hard drive is not being recognized. Use gparted to partiion
your
hard drive with a filesystem and install Nixos on that.

http://gparted.org/




On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:46 AM, J. Brian Kelley <jbk at teksavvy.com> wrote:

> To start, my hardware is:
>
> Mainboard - Asrock 4Core1600Twins-P35
> CPU - Intel Core2 Duo E7200
> No IDE disks ( and IDE controller is disabled in Bios)
> 1 Sata Drive (MBR formatted)
> 1 Sata Burner
> 1 Floppy
> 1 Pci-e display adapter AMD HD6850
>
> This ancient relic does seem to give many live-cd distros the
> heebie-jeebies. So far, the only one that has not required some
> intervention is Linux Mint.
>
> NixOS is my latest foray.
>
> First, putting the live-cd on a usb stick seems to create problems
> (whether I use UNetBootin or LiLi V2.8.30), so I burned a DVD.
>
> Booting from the DVD starts out well, gets by the Grub loader and
> reaches the point where the screen resolution is switched. A bit past
> that I get the following three messages:
>
> ata1: irq-stat 0x00000040, connection status changed
> ata1: SError { DevExch }
> ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x40000000 action 0xe frozen
>
> These then repeat - FOREVER.
>
> Obviously, I am a total NOOB and a Windows 7 user. As such, it is
> paramount that my Windows system remains (almost) untouched, with the
> only change being an addition to the Windows 7 bootloader selection,
> pointing to the Grub2 bootloader on my /boot partition. (Thanks to
> EasyBCD.)
>
> So, if there is not an obvious fix for the error loop, could someone
> point me to instructions as how to use the Linux Mint live-cd (in all
> its KDE glory) to create a bootable NixOS Graphic system with Web access?
>
> The CPU precludes a 64-bit virtualization approach and I cannot envision
> trying a terminal-only install without Web access to lead me step by
> step through the process.
>
> Any input greatly appreciated.
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