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

[Raahul Kumar]

Use  smartctl, and check that the hard drive cable is properly seated. That
seems to have fixed the same issue for previous people who had this problem

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129401
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=135306

If the hard drive is fine, the download the newest Nixos from here

https://nixos.org/releases/nixos/unstable/nixos-14.11pre51857.788a77d/

Burn it to a dvd or usb stick and retry. Are you in business now

Aloha,
RK.

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:01 PM, J. Brian Kelley <jbk at teksavvy.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>
>
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