nixpkgs/modules/installer/cd-dvd/system-tarball.nix
Lluís Batlle i Rossell 1dd3162d7c First attempt at trying to get a tarball of a bootable nixos system.
What I want with this derivation is to allow the sheevaplug nixos to
build a tarball with all the needed files to boot. Then, this can be
unpacked into an SD card, or into a NFS/TFTP server, and then the
user can boot the system with help of the uboot console.
By now, I have only tried to build the tarball in a PC, in order
to develop the nix expressions quicker.

There is nothing written specialy for the Sheevaplug in all this,
by now.


svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=20035
2010-02-15 23:27:51 +00:00

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# This module creates a bootable ISO image containing the given NixOS
# configuration. The derivation for the ISO image will be placed in
# config.system.build.tarball.
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
with pkgs.lib;
let
options = {
tarball.contents = mkOption {
example =
[ { source = pkgs.memtest86 + "/memtest.bin";
target = "boot/memtest.bin";
}
];
description = ''
This option lists files to be copied to fixed locations in the
generated ISO image.
'';
};
tarball.storeContents = mkOption {
example = [pkgs.stdenv];
description = ''
This option lists additional derivations to be included in the
Nix store in the generated ISO image.
'';
};
};
# A clue for the uboot loading
ubootKernelParams = pkgs.writeText "uboot-kernel-params.txt" ''
Kernel Parameters:
init=${config.system.build.bootStage2}
systemConfig=${config.system.build.toplevel}
${toString config.boot.kernelParams}
'';
versionFile = pkgs.writeText "nixos-version" config.system.nixosVersion;
in
{
require = options;
# Don't build the GRUB menu builder script, since we don't need it
# here and it causes a cyclic dependency.
boot.loader.grub.enable = false;
# !!! Hack - attributes expected by other modules.
system.build.menuBuilder = "true";
system.boot.loader.kernelFile = "vmlinuz";
environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.grub2 ];
# In stage 1 of the boot, mount the CD/DVD as the root FS by label
# so that we don't need to know its device.
fileSystems =
[ { mountPoint = "/";
label = "rootfs";
}
];
# boot.initrd.availableKernelModules = [ "mvsdio" "mmc_block" "reiserfs" "ext3" "ext4" ];
# boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ "rtc_mv" ];
# Closures to be copied to the Nix store on the CD, namely the init
# script and the top-level system configuration directory.
tarball.storeContents =
[ {
object = config.system.build.bootStage2;
symlink = "none";
}
{
object = config.system.build.toplevel;
symlink = "/var/run/current-system";
}
];
# Individual files to be included on the CD, outside of the Nix
# store on the CD.
tarball.contents =
[ { source = config.boot.kernelPackages.kernel + "/vmlinuz";
target = "/boot/vmlinuz";
}
{ source = config.system.build.initialRamdisk + "/initrd";
target = "/boot/initrd";
}
{ source = "${pkgs.grub2}/share/grub/unicode.pf2";
target = "/boot/grub/unicode.pf2";
}
{ source = config.boot.loader.grub.splashImage;
target = "/boot/grub/splash.png";
}
/*
{ source = pkgs.ubootKernelParams;
target = "/uboot-kernelparams.txt";
}
*/
{ source = versionFile;
target = "/nixos-version.txt";
}
];
# Create the tarball
system.build.tarball = import ../../../lib/make-system-tarball.nix {
inherit (pkgs) stdenv perl xz pathsFromGraph;
inherit (config.tarball) contents storeContents;
};
boot.postBootCommands =
''
# After booting, register the contents of the Nix store on the
# CD in the Nix database in the tmpfs.
${config.environment.nix}/bin/nix-store --load-db < /nix/store/nix-path-registration
# nixos-rebuild also requires a "system" profile and an
# /etc/NIXOS tag.
touch /etc/NIXOS
${config.environment.nix}/bin/nix-env -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/system --set /var/run/current-system
'';
}