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

[J. Brian Kelley]

Well, I used Windows to check the S.M.A.R.T. and all is good. Besides if 
there were a connection problem, Windows 7 would be at best capriciously 
unstable and other distros / live-cds would have disk access problems.

The unstable Nov 1 NixOS has the exact same problem and I even repeated 
this with the i686 version although I believe my Core 2 Duo 7200 belongs 
to the x86-64 class (if only barely).

One of my problems is not knowing how to stop things scrolling off the 
screen. (It should be noted that I had the sequence of the eternally 
repeated error message triplet wrong - the exception is first, then the 
irq-stat and last the SError.) The errors present immediately after the 
nixos login prompt is displayed.

Best to have full disclosure on the drive. It is a Seagate 
ST2000DX001-1CM164 with 2 TB (really 1.8) capacity and 64 MB cache, but 
it is also a hybrid with an 8 GB nand flash front end.

Rearranging the deck chairs (partitions) with the gparted live-cd so 
that the extended partition reaches the end of the drive made no 
difference (although the Windows system 'feels' faster, which may simply 
be a placebo effect).

What more can I do? It seems pointless to attempt a NixOS install using 
the Linux Mint live-cd as sooner or later, the NixOS build will have to 
be booted and most likely will contain the same problem.

Thanks for your interest.

On 2014-11-02 23:37, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> 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.
>