[Nix-dev] Nix OS installation problems - Where's the hard drive?

[Wout Mertens]

Hi,

No, the live USB doesn't store changes I'm afraid. What you can do is put
the Ubuntu kernel on the liveUSB, and boot using that instead of the
regular one. That should work, I don't think there are any extra-special
kernel features that NixOS needs.

Then you can install NixOS on your HD, but you need the kernel to have the
SAS support.

To change the Linux config on NixOS, you need to edit configuration.nix:
http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#sec-kernel-config
Just put "CONFIG_SCSI_SAS_ATA y" in there.

In the mean time, also open an issue requesting the kernel to have that
configuration by default.

Wout.

On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Joseph Joe <joej at reed.edu> wrote:

> Would I be able to recompile the kernel while booting from the NixOS
> live-usb and would these changes be permanent on the live-usb?
>
> Would I just type in these commands (src:
> http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/305766-recompile-your-kernel-for-a-perfect-fit
> )?
>
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make clean
> make
> make modules_install
> make install
> reboot
>
> Then, will the appropriate kernel option be set so that my hard drive will
> be detected?
>
> Joseph Joe
>
>
>
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