Hi Alexey, Try removing the quotes:
boot.extraModulePackages = [ config.boot.kernelPackages.broadcom-sta ]; I guess there's a problem with nixos-generate-config. Cheers, Cillian On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Alexey Muranov <alexey.mura...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12 août 2014, at 22:27, Paul Colomiets <p...@colomiets.name> wrote: > >> You don't need another EFI >> partition, nixos should put it's own kernel into existing EFI >> partition, just mount it as /boot. > > Should i mount it before running `nixos-generate-config`? If so, should i > mount it at /boot or at /mnt/boot? > > I have tried just the following sequence of commands: > > # swapon /dev/disk/by-lablel/swap > # mount /dev/disk/bt-label/nixos /mnt > # nixos-generate-config --root /mnt > # nixos-install > > It failed with the messages: > > building the system configuration... > error: while evaluating the attribute `buildCommand' of the derivation > `nixos-14.04.291.a4ac76b' at > /mnt-nixpkgs/nixos/modules/system/activation/top-level.nix:100:7: > [...] > The option value `boot.extraModulePackages' in > `/etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix' is not a list of paths. > > I checked my hardware-configuration.nix, there i had > > boot.extraModulePackages = [ "config.boot.kernelPackages.broadcom-sta" ]; > > The `fileSystems` option had a single element: > > fileSystems."/" = > { device = "/dev/sda5"; > fsType = "ext4"; > } > > What is wrong? > > Alexey. > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev -- NixOS: The Purely Functional Linux Distribution http://nixos.org _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev