[Nix-dev] NixOS won't boot anymore in certain generations, don't know why (Stage-1 error)

[Matthias Beyer]

On 04-06-2015 14:15:12, Marc Weber wrote:
> I can boot this way:
> 
> in grub hit e, add boot.shell_on_fail or shell_on_fail,
> then you can debug the mounting / boot process, eg enter interactive
> shell, then you can mount your partition manually on /root* something
> 
> After exiting I can boot. I don't restart often so I didn't investigate.
> 
> A google search told me it could be a race condition.
> 
> Thus have a look at the shell_on_fail within stage-1 and stage-1 init
> scripts to learn more about the startup process - then you can debug.

Also not really user friendly, is it?

Anyways, I'm not using grub, I'm using gummiboot and I don't know how
to enter the interactive shell with it. Though I got it working,
right... so everything is "fine" again.

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Kind regards,
Matthias Beyer

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