I've tried this approach on a real machine, the result is the same.
2014-02-05 Sergey Mironov <[email protected]>: > Hi! Looks like stage1 repair console can't read user input, at least > under VirtualBox. Here is how to reproduce the problem: > 1. Boot VirtualBox with NixOS minimal installation CD attached > 2. Press 'e' in the grub to edit kernel command line > 3. Add bood.debug1 kernel argument > 4. Boot > > Repair console appears but It doesn't react on key presses. It feels > like /dev/tty1 hangs while trying to read something (bash 'read' > operator). Note that system doesn't hang in general, other processes > continue to work (I have carried out some experiments with inserting > "( while true ; do echo -n . ; sleep 1; done) &" into stage-1 script) > > Any ideas on how to fix it? > > Regards, > Sergey _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
