root=... kernel command line parameter, instead of hard-coding it in
`fileSystems'. This is to allow CD-to-USB converters such as
UNetbootin to rewrite the kernel command line to the label or UUID
of the USB stick.
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we want to generate the GRUB menu without actually installing GRUB
(because Amazon supplies its own pv-grub), and each menu entry
requires "root (hd0)". For the first, allow boot.loader.grub.device
to be set to "nodev" to indicate that the GRUB menu should be
generated without installing GRUB. For the second, add an option
boot.loader.grub.extraPerEntryConfig to allow commands to be added
to each GRUB menu entry (in this case, "root (hd0)").
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to use the standard (coreutils) tools.
* Use util-linux's `switch_root' to switch over to the target root
FS. It automatically moves over the /dev, /proc and /sys from stage
1, so stage 2 doesn't need to set them up again.
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pkgs/build-support/vm). This should make the NixOS regression tests
more robust on heavily loaded systems, where they now frequently
fail:
server# mounting //10.0.2.4/qemu on /hostfs...
server# [ 8.233991] Slow work thread pool: Starting up
server# [ 8.234721] Slow work thread pool: Ready
server# [ 23.271708] CIFS VFS: No response for cmd 114 mid 1
server# [ 23.272443] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -112
server# mount: Host is down
server# [ 23.275188] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Maybe there is a configurable timeout somewhere, which would be much
nicer...
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write some magic string to ttyS0. This removes the dependency on
having a CIFS mount.
* Use a thread to process the stdout/stderr of each QEMU instance.
* Add a kernel command line parameter "stage1panic" to tell stage 1 to
panic if an error occurs. This is faster than waiting until
connect() times out.
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modules that should be added to the initrd, but should only be
loaded on demand (e.g. by the kernel or by udev). This is
especially useful in the installation CD, where we now only load the
modules needed by the hardware.
* Enable automatic modprobing by udev in the initrd.
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into one argument "modules".
* release.nix: fixed the manual job.
* ISO generation: break an infinite recursion. Don't know why this
suddenly happens. Probably because of the nixpkgs.config change,
but I don't see why. Maybe the option evaluation is too strict.
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util-linux-ng instead of e2fsprogs, blkid is in util-linux-ng, and
we need to manually create /dev/.udev prior to starting udevd for
some reason.
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This is because fsck.ext3 takes several minutes to recover the
journal, whereas the ext3 implementation in the kernel only takes a
few seconds. I'd love to know why this is the case...
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size of the i686-linux ISO image from 463 MiB to 147 MiB. Hopefully
it also speeds up installation due to reduced seek time and larger
block sizes, but I haven't tested that yet (on real hardware).
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