I'll do it if I overcome problems. But I am afraid that current easiest way - boot gentoo live cd (using pxe, it works) and than follow 'booting nixos from linux' wiki.
2012/8/3 <j...@lastlog.de>: > > it would be great if you could add a wiki article about how to setup a > minimal "pxelinux boot" with NixOS! or maybe you could even create a > virtual machine image? > > i would like to have such a setup as well but currently lack the time > looking into it. > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 12:50:15 +0400, Sergey Mironov <ier...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hi. I'm trying to boot Nixos using pxe (network booting). >> >> pxelinux.0 (probably part of syslinux - I can't remember it's origin >> on my server) helped me to boot stage 1. >> Unfortunately, it turned out that /dev/root is not set and thus nixos >> can't mount /mnt/root and nix-store.squashfs image. And more - looks >> like stage 1 doesn't want to load my network module so I have no >> network access to download it manually. >> >> Can anyone confirm that stage 1 bootcd kernel has no LAN support (and >> thus it is not my local HW problem)? >> >> Sergey >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
