Hello! I’m pretty new to NixOS and Nix at all and I’m trying to install from zero the system.
I followed the manual and also searched a lot about how to install and finally got to the end of installation when I am prompted to give a new root password.
So I rebooted and the system logs me in the emergency mode and say to look into journalctl.
Ok, this is what I found:
All my config can be found in my repository: https://www.github.com/Mdsp9070/dotfiles/tree/main/dots%2Fnixos
What I’m supposed to do? I also tried to remove home-manager but error stills happening.
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Your link is dead and I don’t find anything under https://www.github.com/Mdsp9070/dotfiles. but it seems like your hardware-configuration.nix has a wrong mountpoint for /home.
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Welcome! Installing nix for first time can be a little daunting , but fear not , we can help you. I can’t find your configuration file , but i presume your refactoring your configuration.
Your git page is quite cool!
So welcome…we can get you up and running!
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Sorry, I refactored it and deleted from dotfiles for now.
But yeah! Somehow the hardware-configuration.nix generated the wrong config for my disks.
Ok I’ll not blame Nix because is most likely to happen a personal error!
Thanks for your response and sorry about my vanishment haha
Yeah! But I really liked the idea to declare my distribution and then have isolated environments which I can install/remove/rollback software the way I want in a such stable distro.
Wow. I’m onlly using for some hours but I’m really happy with the actual state. I need to get used to about installing haskell packages (some are broken) and I really need them, like xmobar (ok, that isn’t broken but I couldn’t set up 
but patat is one I really like but is broken).
The most important thignis that was fun to write nix! No awful manual Linux configs (:
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Thanks! Do you have a github/gitlab user? What it is?
yeah, i seem to remember, there was an issue on older machine of mine, which has normal non-uefi boot, and a slightly buggy uefi boot loader (i think they are all slighty broken in bizzare ways). It was a matter of selecting the way to reference my disk…lucky/unlucky for you linux gives you many many options of referencing disks… on /dev/disk/ by-id by-label by-partlabel by-partuuid by-path by-uuid
so nixos-generate-config got it wrong, so i had to manually edit it, but i think it was mainly down to a buggy uefi bios… again, i was switching from uefi to non-uefi, which confused things even more.
I don’t have the machine anymore, and my later install, with a slightly less broken uefi boot worked a lot smoother.
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Exactly! I had the same problem!
