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

[Daniel Hlynskyi]

> It does not switch to hi-res, so it made it a bit easier to read things
as they flash by
that is normally regulated by boot parameter "nomodeset" in GRUB (
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/kernel_mode_setting)

> Could something this old still be usable with updates?
sure. That is the point of rolling-release distros (like NixOS). You can
update from any point in history (aww, there are exceptions ^))

The command to update system is

nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable
nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade

I don't know whether it will update kernelPackages to new one. If that ata1
is kernel bug, than you have to figure out, which kernel it was introduced.

2014-11-06 17:25 GMT+01:00 J. Brian Kelley <jbk at teksavvy.com>:

>  And you are correct -
> nixos-graphical-0.1pre4006_7435db-bc9efb6-x86_64-linux.iso does boot, but
> not without complaint.
>
> It does not switch to hi-res, so it made it a bit easier to read things as
> they flash by (scroll lock seems to be ignored if the message line starts
> with the character [  ).
>
> The error triplet occurs before the login request and is preceded by:
>
> ata1:hard resetting link
> ata1:SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
> ata.00: configured for UDMA/133
> ata1:EH complete
> ata1:limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
>
> The error triplet then occurs:
>
> ata1:exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x40000000 action 0xe frozen
> ata1:irq-stat 0x00000040, connection status changed
> ata1:SError { DevExch }
>
> After that there is one more:
>
> ata1:hard resetting link
>
> Finally, the login request is presented. There is no eternal repetition of
> the error triplet as seen in the current live-cd.
>
> Logged in and the desktop came up.
>
> Could something this old still be usable with updates? Will the link speed
> remain at Sata 1 levels?
>
>
> On 2014-11-05 21:42, Daniel Hlynskyi wrote:
>
>
> > Where could I find one of these old versions? Furthest back I saw was
> only a year old.
> Old releases are at http://nixos.org/releases/nixos/unstable/ - I beleive
> 0.1pre versions are without systemd
>
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