I’m trying to install NixOS on Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 10, but it appears that the default bootloader settings in the Graphical ISO image do not work as expected.
I’m using nixos-gnome-22.11.1629.2f9fd351ec3-x86_64-linux.iso.
I’m able to run the GUI to create the necessary partitions and install NixOS, and once the install is done, my configuration.nix looks like this:
# Edit this configuration file to define what should be installed on
# your system. Help is available in the configuration.nix(5) man page
# and in the NixOS manual (accessible by running ‘nixos-help’).
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
{
imports =
[ # Include the results of the hardware scan.
./hardware-configuration.nix
];
# Bootloader.
boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable = true;
boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;
boot.loader.efi.efiSysMountPoint = "/boot/efi";
networking.hostName = "nixos"; # Define your hostname.
# networking.wireless.enable = true; # Enables wireless support via wpa_supplicant.
# Configure network proxy if necessary
# networking.proxy.default = "http://user:password@proxy:port/";
# networking.proxy.noProxy = "127.0.0.1,localhost,internal.domain";
# Enable networking
networking.networkmanager.enable = true;
# Set your time zone.
time.timeZone = "America/Los_Angeles";
# Select internationalisation properties.
i18n.defaultLocale = "en_US.UTF-8";
i18n.extraLocaleSettings = {
LC_ADDRESS = "en_US.UTF-8";
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_US.UTF-8";
LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_US.UTF-8";
LC_MONETARY = "en_US.UTF-8";
LC_NAME = "en_US.UTF-8";
LC_NUMERIC = "en_US.UTF-8";
LC_PAPER = "en_US.UTF-8";
LC_TELEPHONE = "en_US.UTF-8";
LC_TIME = "en_US.UTF-8";
};
# Enable the X11 windowing system.
services.xserver.enable = true;
# Enable the GNOME Desktop Environment.
services.xserver.displayManager.gdm.enable = true;
services.xserver.desktopManager.gnome.enable = true;
# Configure keymap in X11
services.xserver = {
layout = "us";
xkbVariant = "";
};
# Enable CUPS to print documents.
services.printing.enable = true;
# Enable sound with pipewire.
sound.enable = true;
hardware.pulseaudio.enable = false;
security.rtkit.enable = true;
services.pipewire = {
enable = true;
alsa.enable = true;
alsa.support32Bit = true;
pulse.enable = true;
# If you want to use JACK applications, uncomment this
#jack.enable = true;
# use the example session manager (no others are packaged yet so this is enabled by default,
# no need to redefine it in your config for now)
#media-session.enable = true;
};
# Enable touchpad support (enabled default in most desktopManager).
# services.xserver.libinput.enable = true;
# Define a user account. Don't forget to set a password with ‘passwd’.
users.users.mclare = {
isNormalUser = true;
description = "MClare";
extraGroups = [ "networkmanager" "wheel" ];
packages = with pkgs; [
firefox
# thunderbird
];
};
# Enable automatic login for the user.
services.xserver.displayManager.autoLogin.enable = true;
services.xserver.displayManager.autoLogin.user = "mclare";
# Workaround for GNOME autologin: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/103746#issuecomment-945091229
systemd.services."getty@tty1".enable = false;
systemd.services."autovt@tty1".enable = false;
# Allow unfree packages
nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
# List packages installed in system profile. To search, run:
# $ nix search wget
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
# vim # Do not forget to add an editor to edit configuration.nix! The Nano editor is also installed by default.
# wget
];
# Some programs need SUID wrappers, can be configured further or are
# started in user sessions.
# programs.mtr.enable = true;
# programs.gnupg.agent = {
# enable = true;
# enableSSHSupport = true;
# };
# List services that you want to enable:
# Enable the OpenSSH daemon.
# services.openssh.enable = true;
# Open ports in the firewall.
# networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ ... ];
# networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [ ... ];
# Or disable the firewall altogether.
# networking.firewall.enable = false;
# This value determines the NixOS release from which the default
# settings for stateful data, like file locations and database versions
# on your system were taken. It‘s perfectly fine and recommended to leave
# this value at the release version of the first install of this system.
# Before changing this value read the documentation for this option
# (e.g. man configuration.nix or on https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html).
system.stateVersion = "22.11"; # Did you read the comment?
}
I’ve tried incorporating the hardware specific changes for my machine from this file, and before restarting my entire machine (so still within the ISO) attempted to run nixos-rebuild switch to incorporate those small changes.
However, I immediately hit a wall getting the following:
building Nix...
building the system configuration...
Warning: do not know how to make this configuration bootable; please enable a boot loader.
activating the configuration...
setting up /etc...
reloading user units for nixos...
setting up tmpfiles
the following new units were started: systemd-ask-password-console.path
configuration.nix seems to indicate that there is a bootloader, but all of the troubleshooting information I can find seems to think that the bootloader I should have is grub, rather than systemd-boot.
If I mount the partition that NixOS says is my bootloader (/dev/nvme0n1p1), and run bootctl --path /mnt/boot status; echo $? I get that the partition is not a bootloader.
fdisk -l indicates that the type of /dev/nvme0n1p1 is an EFI system.
If I restart the computer and boot into NixOS from the Linux Boot Loader (that is what the Lenovo says it is, rather than a NixOS Boot Loader), NixOS will start to load up but ultimately stall and just show a blinking white underscore in the left upper corner of the screen. Nothing every happens after that.
