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

Wout Mertens wout.mertens at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 21:49:00 CET 2014


How does SSH influence your system not booting? I'm not sure I understand...

>From what I can tell the error happens in the kernel which points to the
kernel configuration as a possible source of problems... Can you figure out
what the kernel configuration of the linux mint livecd is?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14958192/getting-config-from-linux-kernel-image

On Mon Nov 03 2014 at 9:42:33 PM J. Brian Kelley <jbk at teksavvy.com> wrote:

>  Following up, I came across this:
>
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/4748
>
> Could this be related to my problem?
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------  Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS Live CD
> (Graphic) Boot Failure  Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 11:26:33 -0500  From: J.
> Brian Kelley <jbk at teksavvy.com> <jbk at teksavvy.com>  To: Wout Mertens
> <wout.mertens at gmail.com> <wout.mertens at gmail.com>, Raahul Kumar
> <raahul.kumar at gmail.com> <raahul.kumar at gmail.com>  CC: nix-dev
> <nix-dev at lists.science.uu.nl> <nix-dev at lists.science.uu.nl>
>
>
> I agree that the problem is hardware related, but I cannot see any
> indication that the drive / controller is malfunctioning. Remember that
> I have just run the gparted live-cd (Debian) against the drive for hours
> rearranging the "deck chairs". NixOS is the only distro I have tried
> that is malfunctioning in this area.
>
> I suspect that this is an "enumeration" (is that a general or
> Windows-specific term?) problem which is unique to whatever approach the
> NixOS packagers have selected to use. If so, the question is how to
> identify it.
>
>
>
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