Installer: Add nomodeset and blacklist the nouveau driver

I observed a hang at the moment the nouveau driver gets loaded on a
GTX 970.
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Eelco Dolstra 2015-07-25 19:03:52 +02:00
parent c49b24c940
commit 6948c3ab80
2 changed files with 8 additions and 8 deletions

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@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
<title>Booting from a USB Drive</title>
<para>For systems without CD drive, the NixOS livecd can be booted from
a usb stick. For non-UEFI installations,
<para>For systems without CD drive, the NixOS live CD can be booted from
a USB stick. For non-UEFI installations,
<link xlink:href="http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/">unetbootin</link>
will work. For UEFI installations, you should mount the ISO, copy its contents
verbatim to your drive, then either:

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@ -30,8 +30,7 @@ let
# * COM32 entries (chainload, reboot, poweroff) are not recognized. They
# result in incorrect boot entries.
baseIsolinuxCfg =
''
baseIsolinuxCfg = ''
SERIAL 0 38400
TIMEOUT ${builtins.toString syslinuxTimeout}
UI vesamenu.c32
@ -44,7 +43,7 @@ let
LINUX /boot/bzImage
APPEND init=${config.system.build.toplevel}/init ${toString config.boot.kernelParams}
INITRD /boot/initrd
'';
'';
isolinuxMemtest86Entry = ''
LABEL memtest
@ -55,12 +54,12 @@ let
isolinuxCfg = baseIsolinuxCfg + (optionalString config.boot.loader.grub.memtest86.enable isolinuxMemtest86Entry);
# The efi boot image
# The EFI boot image.
efiDir = pkgs.runCommand "efi-directory" {} ''
mkdir -p $out/EFI/boot
cp -v ${pkgs.gummiboot}/lib/gummiboot/gummiboot${targetArch}.efi $out/EFI/boot/boot${targetArch}.efi
mkdir -p $out/loader/entries
echo "title NixOS LiveCD" > $out/loader/entries/nixos-livecd.conf
echo "title NixOS Live CD" > $out/loader/entries/nixos-livecd.conf
echo "linux /boot/bzImage" >> $out/loader/entries/nixos-livecd.conf
echo "initrd /boot/initrd" >> $out/loader/entries/nixos-livecd.conf
echo "options init=${config.system.build.toplevel}/init ${toString config.boot.kernelParams}" >> $out/loader/entries/nixos-livecd.conf
@ -232,7 +231,6 @@ in
[ "root=LABEL=${config.isoImage.volumeID}"
"boot.shell_on_fail"
"nomodeset"
"systemd.log_level=debug"
];
fileSystems."/" =
@ -272,6 +270,8 @@ in
boot.initrd.availableKernelModules = [ "squashfs" "iso9660" "usb-storage" ];
boot.blacklistedKernelModules = [ "nouveau" ];
boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ "loop" ];
# Closures to be copied to the Nix store on the CD, namely the init