When bootstrapping from other distributions, nixos-install is unable to find
various tools in the chroot since their paths aren't aware of NixOS conventions.
This makes a small change to existing code by specifying nixpkgs/nixos instead
of just nixos when running nix-instantiate in the chroot. I haven't tested this
outside of bootstrapping, but the same specification is used elsewhere in the
code so I don't see why it wouldn't work.
---
nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-install.sh | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-install.sh
b/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-install.sh
index 14ae3da..86e57f7 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-install.sh
+++ b/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-install.sh
@@ -254,8 +254,14 @@ NIXOS_INSTALL_GRUB=1 chroot $mountPoint \
chroot $mountPoint /nix/var/nix/profiles/system/activate
+# Some systems may not be prepared to use NixOS' paths.
+export PATH=/run/current-system/sw/bin:/run/current-system/sw/sbin:$PATH
+export
NIX_PATH=/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos:nixpkgs=/etc/nixos/nixpkgs
+export
NIX_PATH=$NIX_PATH:nixos-config=/etc/nixos/configuration.nix:/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels
+
+
# Ask the user to set a root password.
-if [ "$(chroot $mountPoint nix-instantiate --eval '<nixos>' -A
config.users.mutableUsers)" = true ] && [ -t 0 ] ; then
+if [ "$(chroot $mountPoint nix-instantiate --eval '<nixpkgs/nixos>' -A
config.users.mutableUsers)" = true ] && [ -t 1 ] ; then
echo "setting root password..."
chroot $mountPoint /var/setuid-wrappers/passwd
fi
--
2.3.6
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