BusyBox doesn't handle the "auto" filesystem type very well: fsck will
just ignore such filesystems, and mount will only work properly if the
required kernel module is already loaded. Therefore, use blkid to
determine the filesystem type.
Also generate an /etc/fstab in the initrd rootfs on the fly. This is
useful if you're dropped into an emergency shell since it allows you
to say "fsck /dev/sda1" or "mount /dev/sda" and have the right thing
happen.
So it turns out that BusyBox doesn't auto-load modules for filesystems
that have type "auto", e.g. it doesn't figure out that it should load
the "iso9660" module should be loaded when mounting the CD-ROM. We
don't want to give the root FS on the CD type "iso9660", because that
breaks booting from a USB stick created by unetbootin. So make sure
the "iso9660" module is loaded.
It complained that grub device wasn't defined, and I guess it wanted some
fileSystems too. I copied those details from the sheevaplug expression, that I
made evaluate some minutes ago.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=34238
were obtained from the NixOS channel. "nixos-install" copies this
to the installed system as well.
* In the installation CD, set GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE to a low value for
the benefit of memory-constrained environments.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=33887
I set the grub entry for memtest to read "Memtest86", as suggested by Eelco.
I run:
svn merge -c -33692 ^/nixos/trunk
And edited the change a bit.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=33734
currently activated NixOS. This is "0.1pre-svn" when built from a
SVN tree, but contains the actual revision when installed from the
NixOS channel or from the ISO.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=33730
dhcpcd to segfault randomly or give corrupt output. See e.g.
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2380666/nixlog/1/raw
The problem seems to be that wicd sends a "-k" command to dhcpcd to
release the interface, which doesn't work well with a dhcpcd that
handles all interfaces in one process.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=33720
the same as the usual nixos. I think this trivial change works;
I checked the grub.cfg output generated in the iso_minimal.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=33692
because it can be overriden choosing another memtest86.
As an effect of a change in nixpgks, the isos will include
memtest86 4.0a instead of memtest86+ 4.20, only because the
former is released later, and I deduce it should work better.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=33691
* Load scsi_wait_scan after all other kernel modules to ensure that
all SCSI device nodes have been created.
* Increase the timeout for the appearance of the root device to 20
seconds.
* Do a "udevadm settle" just after the root device has appeared to
make sure that udev isn't accessing the device anymore (hopefully).
On EC2 (Xen), I've seen fsck on the root fail randomly with "device
in use" errors.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=33650
The patch is currently being discussed on LKML and hopefully will be included
in mainline in some form in the future. Note that booting from the livecd has
to do a lot of work before anything is output to the console, so if the drive
is still busy don't assume the boot has hanged
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=33235
The image passed to genisofs needs to be a FAT image with the right filesystem
layout, not an EFI executable image
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=33162
just does what it says (enable a "graphical" configuration).
* Enable KDM in the graphical CD. The "auto" display manager doesn't
properly handle shutdowns etc.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=30331
all-hardware.nix. This allows base.nix (which should probably be
renamed to something more descriptive) to be reused without getting
the hardware configuration of the installation CD.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=30327
After the change from revision 30103, nixos-rebuild suddenly consumed
freaky amounts of memory. I had to abort the process after it had
allocated well in excess of 30GB(!) of RAM. I'm not sure what is causing
this behavior, but undoing that assignment fixes the problem. The other
two commits needed to be revoked, too, because they depend on 30103.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=30127
