[Nix-dev] NixOS Live CD (Graphic) Boot Failure

J. Brian Kelley jbk at teksavvy.com
Thu Nov 6 04:06:26 CET 2014


Thanks. (I had ass-u-me-d that unstable meant bleeding-edge only.)

I use UNetBootin with LinuxLive USB Creator as an alternative when I 
want to force a FAT32 reformat. Either way I seem to have problems with 
NixOS live-cd (perhaps in the realm of hybrid cds, but I am in way over 
my head ... ).

On 2014-11-05 21:42, Daniel Hlynskyi wrote:
> I've installed NixOS from flash drive recent days, burned with 
> UNetBootin. So it is definitely possible.
> The other possibility is if you have GRUB already installed, you can 
> launch GRUB console and run commands like this
>
> root=(hd1,1)
> chainloader +1
> boot
>
> (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromUSB)
>
> Make sure you flash drive is properly formatted (try FAT32 instead of 
> NTFS).
>
> > Where could I find one of these old versions? Furthest back I saw 
> was only a year old.
> Old releases are at http://nixos.org/releases/nixos/unstable/ - I 
> beleive 0.1pre versions are without systemd
>

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