Eelco Dolstra wrote: > On 30/03/14 23:01, Ben Franksen wrote: > >> (2) It seems impossible to install NixOS w/o installing the boot loader. > > You can set: > > boot.loader.grub.device = "nodev"; > > to prevent the installation of GRUB in the MBR while still generating a > GRUB configuration in /boot that might be used for chainloading.
This is what I do now and it indeed works fine. (I was confused by the other problem I had (installing from USB stick didn't work) and first thought it had to do with not installing grub.) > It should be possible to install on a partition as well, but that might > not work > with GRUB 2 due to the increased size (never tried). I fixed that by creating a btrfs on some partition which is compatible with grub2. Thanks Ben -- "Make it so they have to reboot after every typo." -- Scott Adams _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
