Trying NixOS for the first time after using it in a VM for a while.
I’m on a uefi machine, but I’m trying to keep my home partition from a previous OS which was on an MBR partition scheme.
Using the graphical installer, I would get there error that the bootloader could not be installed, and when following instructions to install via command line, I would get the error that my efi partition isn’t on a GPT partition label.
I found some discussion over installing NixOS os UEFI + MBR combo, but none seemed to work.
Is such an installation possible, and if so how can it be done? i.e. What partitions and formats do I need, are there any configuation.nix options I must set?
Yes, all four combinations of GPT vs MBR and EFI vs BIOS are possible, though some are more tortured than others and would require the firmware to play along.