[Nix-dev] Some NixOS beginner questions...

[Ben Franksen]

Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> On 30/03/14 23:01, Ben Franksen wrote:
> 
>> (2) It seems impossible to install NixOS w/o installing the boot loader.
> 
> You can set:
> 
>   boot.loader.grub.device = "nodev";
> 
> to prevent the installation of GRUB in the MBR while still generating a
> GRUB configuration in /boot that might be used for chainloading.

This is what I do now and it indeed works fine. (I was confused by the other 
problem I had (installing from USB stick didn't work) and first thought it 
had to do with not installing grub.)

> It should be possible to install on a partition as well, but that might
> not work
> with GRUB 2 due to the increased size (never tried).  

I fixed that by creating a btrfs on some partition which is compatible with 
grub2.

Thanks
Ben
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