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

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