write some magic string to ttyS0. This removes the dependency on
having a CIFS mount.
* Use a thread to process the stdout/stderr of each QEMU instance.
* Add a kernel command line parameter "stage1panic" to tell stage 1 to
panic if an error occurs. This is faster than waiting until
connect() times out.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19212
installation-cd-minimal.nix is now 2.6.32. Added most of its extra
tools to installation-cd-base.nix.
* Put memtest86 at the bottom of the GRUB menu. (There is currently
no good way to do this other than to change the module inclusion
order.)
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19188
* Miss-interpretation of the --skip option of cryptsetup. Ciphered partition labels are not supported. Labels are erased when doing mkswap on the ciphered partition.
* Avoid doing swapon on devices which are already listed in /proc/swaps.
* Remove no longer listed devices with only one swapoff command.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19164
* Assemble devices only if there is a new entry.
* Add 'new-raid-array' flag to assemble new arrays.
* Emit new-devices flag to triggers the 'filesystems' task.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19145
use exec so that upstart knows when automount shuts down.
If a mount is used upstart will send SIGKILL.
Automount doesn't clean up. So unmount everything using a post script.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19105
trunk) doesn't have a -s flag. 0.7.0 in the stdenv branch
presumably does, but it's marked as unstable upstream.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19047
/nix bind mounted from a fs not rootfs.
As niksnut found, if the sources of bind mounted directories are
umounted before remounting them as "ro", a "mount -o remount,ro" on the
bind targets will not leave the filesystem properly umounted, the same
way as a "-o remount,ro" would do on a usual filesystem.
So, the trick of always remounting as 'ro' before attempting an umount seems
to fix the problem.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=19008
partition from /. If so, copy the kernels and initrds to /boot and
use paths relative to /boot in the GRUB configuration file. This
makes the boot.loader.grub.bootDevice option obsolete. (Is there a
way to mark obsolete options?) It also makes it unnecessary to set
boot.loader.grub.copyKernels, although that option is still
available since it can speed up GRUB if the Nix store is very
large.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18998
GRUB version changes. (That's the complete version from the name
attribute, not the boot.loader.grub.version attribute.) The current
version is recorded in /boot/grub/version. This is required to
prevent massive breakage when we change the default value of
boot.loader.grub.version to "2".
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18997
problem:
Nix only recognizes nixbld users which have nixbld set in extraGroups.
After installation the user was created by activate with group='nixbld'
and extraGroups=[]
After rebooting a conditional shell script fixed this by adding
extraGroups=["nixbld"].
This patches creates the user they way it was in the past with
group='nobody' and extraGroups=["nixbld"].
Another solution would be making nix be aware of the primary group as
well. However this would require everyone to update Nix after updating
NixOS.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18985
expose makeInfo (used by test now)
expose config hack
* Adding tests to release.nix
* fixes
* removing dependency on perl
refactoring details:
Move all configuration modules used by the NixOS installation test script
into one directory.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18982
is not on the same partition as /boot (i.e. when
boot.loader.grub.bootDevice is set): just copy the background image
and the font to /boot.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18979
modules that should be added to the initrd, but should only be
loaded on demand (e.g. by the kernel or by udev). This is
especially useful in the installation CD, where we now only load the
modules needed by the hardware.
* Enable automatic modprobing by udev in the initrd.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18975
automatically loaded by the kernel, load it at boot time.
* Put the ext2 module (which used to be built in) in the initrd to
prevent unexpected breakage.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18963
You can run the kvm nixos installation test by:
nix-build --no-out-link tests/test-nixos-install-from-cd.nix
It boots the installed system.
It still fails sshd isn't started (yet)
adding nixos-bootstrapping-archive:
You can install NixOS easily using any live cd now.
See README-BOOTSTRAP-NIXOS
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18950