On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 12:00:05PM +0400, Sergey Mironov wrote: > I've tried this approach on a real machine, the result is the same.
Does it happen with a master iso image? At some point, we missed the atkbd module in stage 1. In case of a USB keyboard, something similar may happen. > 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 _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
