kernel 3.4+ needs cifs-utils to mount CIFS filesystems.
the kernel itself (and busybox's cifs mount code) are no longer able
to do this in some/most cases and will error out saying:
"CIFS VFS: connecting to DFS root not implemented yet"
Nixos' qemu-vm target is hurt by this, as it wants to mount /nix/store
via cifs very early in the boot process.
This commit makes sure the initrd for affected kernels is built with
cifs-utils if needed.
As non-QWERTY keyboards don't feel so warm and cozy if they hug QWERTY LUKS
password prompts, it was on honor for me to serve King Dvorak XV to fight the
glorious keyboard war against... what?! Yes, I'm awake!
We're fighting with loadkeys to spit out busybox binary keymaps against loadkmap
(loadkeys does have a special target -b for that).
And yep, I'm somewhat abusing preLVMCommands, if someone got issues with that,
feel free to introduce a new substitute in stage-i-init.sh.
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Using BusyBox instead of Bash plus a bunch of other tools gives us a
much more feature-full, yet smaller initrd. In particular, BusyBox
contains networking commands such as ip and a DHCP client, useful for
NFS boots. It's also much more convenient for rescue situations
because the shell has builtin readline support and there are many more
tools (including vi).
This allows setting a fixed device name per array, thus ensuring that at boot,
the arrays will always be mounted with the same names. I think this allows
solving the problem of grub getting confused about softraid device names
(prefix and root), if the devices always get the same naming at initrd.
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I set it as default because users can benefit of this without having to prepare
their nixos first, and I don't think it will break any nixos for the initrd
size increase.
It can be disabled with 'boot.initrd.withExtraTools = false'.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=33000
reiserfs now have separate modules that are conditional on
boot.supportedFilesystems and boot.initrd.supportedFilesystems.
By default, these include the filesystems specified in the fsType
attribute in fileSystems. Ext2/3/4 support is currently
unconditional.
Also unbreak the installer test (http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2272302).
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=32954
pierron recommended the use of types.string over mergeOptionString, as
it is superior but might break things.
For my system the change evaluated to the exactly same.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=31138
After the change from revision 30103, nixos-rebuild suddenly consumed
freaky amounts of memory. I had to abort the process after it had
allocated well in excess of 30GB(!) of RAM. I'm not sure what is causing
this behavior, but undoing that assignment fixes the problem. The other
two commits needed to be revoked, too, because they depend on 30103.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=30127
be set when udevd calls external programs. (The udev manpage claims
that udevd passes its own environment variables, but this is not the
case.)
* Get rid of some udev rule hacks that no longer seem needed.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=25991
root=... kernel command line parameter, instead of hard-coding it in
`fileSystems'. This is to allow CD-to-USB converters such as
UNetbootin to rewrite the kernel command line to the label or UUID
of the USB stick.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=23024
INFORMATION" SCSI command:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609049
As a result, `cdrom_id' doesn't print
ID_CDROM_MEDIA_TRACK_COUNT_DATA, which in turn prevents the
/dev/disk/by-label symlinks from being created. We need these in
the NixOS installation CD, so use ID_CDROM_MEDIA in the
corresponding udev rules for now. This was the behaviour in udev <=
154. See also
http://www.spinics.net/lists/hotplug/msg03935.html
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=22691
to use the standard (coreutils) tools.
* Use util-linux's `switch_root' to switch over to the target root
FS. It automatically moves over the /dev, /proc and /sys from stage
1, so stage 2 doesn't need to set them up again.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=22085
modules that should be added to the initrd, but should only be
loaded on demand (e.g. by the kernel or by udev). This is
especially useful in the installation CD, where we now only load the
modules needed by the hardware.
* Enable automatic modprobing by udev in the initrd.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=18975