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<bennofs[m]>
does the sd-image for aarch64 have graphical stuff?
<bennofs[m]>
i guess we could at least disable fontconfig for the sd-image?
<samueldr>
nope, sd-image is close to the minimal iso
<samueldr>
so yeah, I guess we could
<bennofs[m]>
or just set environment.noXlibs = true
<samueldr>
(I'm looking at the savings from building while including profiles/minimal.nix)
<makefu>
bennofs[m]: noXlibs is like the trigger for "build everything yourself and never become happy again". also noXlibs does not really live up to its name unfortunately - you will still have tons of libs related to gui stuff in your system config
<samueldr>
hmm, yeah, looking at things while the non-minimal image builds and I think you're right, don't think anything will be pre-built
<makefu>
it sounded nice on paper when i tried to enable it for my vps'es but with every update the machines start compiling all their packages
<samueldr>
though it's possible someone built things with noXlibs already on the community machine
<samueldr>
the netboot attribute from nixos/release.nix gives a bunch of things already built :3 module = ./modules/installer/netboot/netboot-minimal.nix;
<samueldr>
netboot-minimal.nix includes minimal.nix
<samueldr>
so I'd say that for as long as netboot-minimal includes minimal.nix it seems not to onerous to build the sd-image defaulting with minimal.nix, **if** it reduces its size considerably
<bennofs[m]>
I am checking right now, out of curiousity, how far I get with cross compiling sd-image from current master :)
<samueldr>
at one point it was possible without much patching master
<samueldr>
one of the hard facts of the sd-image installer is that there's not much trickery that can be reliably done for the rootfs
<samueldr>
since it boots in the filesystem it will be installed on (by default)
<samueldr>
and uh, going from my experience from booting the uefi installer image on my raspi 3, it makes a difference at boot
<samueldr>
the uefi usb installer took a bunch more time to boot
<samueldr>
(possibly due to the work needed to be done to unsquash the squashfs)
<samueldr>
(oh, and note I'm not trying to shoot down ideas, only barfing up my current knowledge of the situation, which may or may not be entirely factual)
<bennofs[m]>
is the boot partition on the pi special? i did mkfs.vfat for /boot and looks like that broke it?
<clever>
bennofs[m]: bootcode.bin and start.elf must be present for it to boot
<clever>
i dont think nixos generates those
<bennofs[m]>
I tarred up my /boot before
<clever>
what happens at boot?
<clever>
is the hdmi plugged in?
<bennofs[m]>
No. I can maybe check this later
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<bennofs[m]>
samueldr: huh, that sd-image you linked to (from cs.helsinki.fi) fails fsck.vfat out of the box
<samueldr>
hah
<samueldr>
I had some doubts since a fresh~ish install failed quickly on it
<samueldr>
but it's on an allwinner board on which I don't need it
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<nbp>
samueldr: Ok, I am trying to install NixOS, got rid of the previous directories, kept the /boot (ext3) and /boot/efi (fat) from OpenSuse, but I am unable to get a nixos-install command working.
<samueldr>
(note: never tried to install using the usb installer, so I can't really say)
<nbp>
samueldr: I either get failures from grub, when it cannot find efibootmgr, or issues becuse grubTarget / grubTargetEfi are both empty.
<samueldr>
try canBootAsRemovable
* samueldr
checks the proper option name
<samueldr>
when using u-boot to boot uefi grub on aarch64 I was forced to do that
<nbp>
samueldr: The way the option description says, seems to be only to use it for pluggable devices.
* samueldr
thinks a bit
<samueldr>
it might not work 100% out of the box
<samueldr>
but it should
<samueldr>
what "as removable" does is to use the fallback path for the efi program
<nbp>
same issue: Died at /nix/store/7cnxdsk2hm65882sxblwf2y4xrw3yhry-install-grub.pl line 471.
<samueldr>
instead of registering the boot option
<samueldr>
:/
<samueldr>
I just remember grub working pretty much out of the box