[Nix-dev] ZFS root boot

Ricardo M. Correia rcorreia at wizy.org
Fri Nov 8 13:13:34 CET 2013


Sorry, a few corrections:

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Ricardo M. Correia <rcorreia at wizy.org>wrote:

> $ zpool set mountpoint=/ rpool
>

The correct command is "zfs set mountpoint=/ rpool"

To install NixOS, you have to mount the root pool and /boot under /mnt.
> This is what I did:
>
> $ zpool export rpool
> $ zpool import -o altroot=/mnt rpool
>

You also need to run "mkdir /mnt/boot" before mounting /mnt/boot.


> $ mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot    (instead of /dev/sda1, put whatever
> partition you used for /boot).
>

Cheers,
Ricardo
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