[Nix-dev] grub 2 and long delays when booting

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

Marc Weber wrote:

> when trying to boot my system I have to wait maybe a minute until
> I can see the kernel message and NixOS booting.

Try setting

  boot.loader.grub.copyKernels = true;

If you have a large /nix/store directory, GRUB seems to take a long time to
access the kernel and initrd images.  Copying them to /boot makes this much faster.

(However, this applies to GRUB 1 equally, so maybe you have a different problem.)

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