I’m trying to install nixos on an old mac mini (late 2014) I got from work but the live USB won’t even boot up. It crashes in stage 1.
mounting /dev/root on /iso...
mounting /mnt-root/iso/nix-store.squashfs on /nix/.ro-store...
mounting tmpfs on /nix/.rw-store...
mounting overlay on /nix/store...
stage 2 init script (/mnt-root//init) not found
An error occurred in stage 1 of the boot process, which must mount the
root filesystem on `/mnt-root` and then start stage 2. Press one
of the following keys:
I dropped into a PID 1 interactive shell by pressing f
at this point and checked in /mnt-root
and there is no init file. I checked the stage-1-init.sh
script which is symlinked to /init
and found the point at which that error occurs. I manually symlinked stage 2 to /mnt-root/init and ran the remaining commands from the stage 1 script but at the final command (running stage 2 via exec), it just hangs forever with no output.
Has anyone had any luck with this?
I have also tried installing remotely using nixos-anywhere
and that hangs at kexec/initrd
so I think it might be the same problem happening there.
I have successfully installed arch linux on it with no issues and I’m really hoping I can get NixOS on there!