Rommel Martinez <rmm <at> meta.ph> writes: > > I fetched http://nixos.org/releases/nixos/latest-iso-graphical-x86_64-linux, which, at the time of download, pointed to nixos-graphical-0.2pre4454_979117b- 789154b-x86_64-linux.iso. I wanted to install it from a USB flash drive, so I followed the methods described at http://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_NixOS_from_a_USB_stick. > > However, none of them worked. With the second method (syslinux), I only got a blinking cursor, then it went on to proceed to the next boot device. With the first method, the following message appeared on the screen: > > waiting for device /dev/root to appear....................... > > momunting /dev/root on /... > > mount: mounting /dev/root on /mnt-root/ failed: No such file or directory > > An error occured in stage 1 of the boot process, which must mount the > > root filesystem on `/mnt-root' and then start stage 2. Press one > of the following keys: > > r) to reboot immediately > > 8) to ignore the error and continue >
I am having the same problem. For me the problem does not appear with older nixos versions (I tried 0.1-pre26901-x86-64, that works). From reading about similar problems on other distributions it seems udev used to symlink the booting device to /dev/root but it is not doing that anymore. That seems like a reasonable explanation to me but I know almost nothing about the booting process or udev, so I might be completely off. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
