Hi, I’m trying to boot the NixOS installation iso on a kvm qemu virtual machine of my hoster of choice. The NixOS 20.03, unstable and self-built master version with the latest linux kernel didn’t work. The screenshots are from the self-built one.
As you can see it doesn’t even show the cdrom. Also I could boot the latest version of ArchLinux without a problem and it also showed a /dev/loop0 device. I already asked my hoster but didn’t get a response until now.
Does anybody have any idea? I can also run some commands if you need more information.
Any help is really appreciated. Btw. I don’t want to lustrate or so.
It may also be possible that ArchLinux and NixOS boot differently as ArchLinux was a provided option and NixOS was a self-uploaded ISO. I previously manually uploaded an ArchLinux iso which worked but the command output in the last post is from the provided one. I can only upload one ISO at once so changing is annoying.
dmesg from NixOS will follow shortly (yeah it’s a video, I’m sorry)
I’m pretty sure that the booting process is different and it’s not actually NixOS’ fault. If you come to the same conclusion I would close this and ask the hoster again.
isoinfo -d -J -p -R -i nixos-minimal-20.03.2843.14006b724f3-x86_64-linux.iso
Setting input-charset to 'UTF-8' from locale.
CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format
El Torito VD version 1 found, boot catalog is in sector 55
Joliet with UCS level 3 found, Joliet volume descriptor:
System id:
Volume id: nixos-minimal-20
Volume set id:
Publisher id: nixos
Data preparer id: XORRISO-1.5.2 2019.10.26.180001, LIBISOBURN-1.5.2, LIBISOFS-1.5.
Application id: nixos
Copyright File id:
Abstract File id:
Bibliographic File id:
Volume set size is: 1
Volume set sequence number is: 1
Logical block size is: 2048
Volume size is: 282112
SUSP signatures version 1 found
Rock Ridge signatures version 1 found
Rock Ridge id 'RRIP_1991A'
Eltorito validation header:
Hid 1
Arch 0 (x86)
ID ''
Cksum AA 55 OK
Key 55 AA
Eltorito defaultboot header:
Bootid 88 (bootable)
Boot media 0 (No Emulation Boot)
Load segment 0
Sys type 0
Nsect 4
Bootoff 5193 20883
isoinfo -d -p -R -i archlinux-2020.08.01-x86_64.iso
Setting input-charset to 'UTF-8' from locale.
CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format
System id:
Volume id: ARCH_202008
Volume set id:
Publisher id: ARCH LINUX <HTTP://WWW.ARCHLINUX.ORG>
Data preparer id: PREPARED BY MKARCHISO
Application id: ARCH LINUX LIVE/RESCUE CD
Copyright File id:
Abstract File id:
Bibliographic File id:
Volume set size is: 1
Volume set sequence number is: 1
Logical block size is: 2048
Volume size is: 343552
El Torito VD version 1 found, boot catalog is in sector 44
NO Joliet present
SUSP signatures version 1 found
Rock Ridge signatures version 1 found
Rock Ridge id 'RRIP_1991A'
Eltorito validation header:
Hid 1
Arch 0 (x86)
ID ''
Cksum AA 55 OK
Key 55 AA
Eltorito defaultboot header:
Bootid 88 (bootable)
Boot media 0 (No Emulation Boot)
Load segment 0
Sys type 0
Nsect 4
Bootoff 802D 32813
