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

[J. Brian Kelley]

Could you expand on that? A live-cd should not expect there to be a 
prepared storage unit (preparing it would be a possible requirement of 
the live-cd itself).

Further, as mentioned, the Linux Mint live-cd has no problem with the 
SATA unit (and the problems with other live-cds have all related with 
the AMD HD6850 and the distros' penchants for using flgrx rather than 
the linux native driver).

The SATA drive was already formatted (MBR, 1 Primary NTFS, 1 Extended 
with 4 NTFS and 3 ext4, with the remainder unallocated).

Are you saying that the NixOS live-cd requires a preformatted primary 
partition? Although a complete NOOB, I believe that may be a requirement 
for the /boot if LVM is invoked.

Still I do recall from the dim distant past, that partitions are a 
snake's nest of assumptions and presumptions (I have two Windows 
partition managers disagreeing as to whether the unallocated space at 
the end of the drive is part of the extended partition or external to it 
... ).

To that end, I am in the process of restructuring the drive with the 
gparted live-cd (which also had no problem booting) and ensuring that 
there is nothing following the extended partition. This will take some time.


On 2014-11-02 21:00, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> 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.