Nix can't find pkgs.nixos-boot - and other current issues

Melkor333 / nixos-boot

A NixOS Plymouth theme displaying a fancy growing and shrinking NixOS Logo

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Nix can't find pkgs.nixos-boot - and other current issues #11

Open codeiimon opened 2 months ago

codeiimon commented 2 months ago

While following your guide (both the flake and non-flake option) I get this error:

/nix/store/...-source/modules.nix:38:23:

           37|     enable = true;
           38|     themePackages = [ pkgs.nixos-boot ];
             |                       ^
           39|     theme = config.nixos-boot.theme;

Not sure what is going on 😕

Melkor333 commented 2 months ago

Hm that should be covered with the overlay in the modules.nix 🤔 But I guess the module is a bit unnecessary complicated anyway...

I pushed a change that makes it not use overlays anymore and therefore not use pkgs.nixos-boot. It seems to work, though I think I have some unrelated firmware issue that makes it freeze for me.

Also, I refactored it & added a evil-nixos theme which I can't test due to my issues 😅 (I'm having this issue IIRC since fall last year and no clue how to debug, the system just locks up)

It does work in the test-vm, though, so 🤞🏼 my issues are local. Would be glad if you could test it (and maybe test the evil-nixos theme as well if it works 😇 )

codeiimon commented 2 months ago

Sorry for the late reply! Didn't get around to testing it till now.

So it works, kinda 😅 ? I don't get the previous error, but when I boot up the machine, instead of logo, I just get a blank white background. Not sure what is happening there.

Also thanks for the quick response. Ill try to respond as fast as possible from now on.

Melkor333 commented 2 months ago

No worries, anything sub 2 weeks is super fast in OSS :)

Hm okay, I get a similar experience. But with the test vm it just works... I have no clue how to fix this. 😬 I might've to take a deeper look at the generated script, maybe there is a typo or something...

Melkor333 commented 2 months ago

@codeiimon for how long do you get the white screen? just a short flash or for a few seconds?

I just set boot.initrd.systemd.enable = true; and now it shows me the evil-nixos theme while waiting for my LUKS passphrase. So the TODOS are roughly:

[ ] Figure out why the delay doesn't work (it ignores my 10 second delay I configured)
[ ] Colors don't work either (at least the evil-nixos theme seems to always have white background.)
[ ] upscale the evil-nixos images, it's quite small right now. Maybe AI can help me with this 🤔
[ ] Fix Text color. I see no text when I have to enter my LUKS password 😄
[ ] document possible use of boot.initrd.systemd.enable to not have the ugly LUKS prompt (only learned about this right now)

codeiimon commented 2 months ago

Yeah I just got around to testing it again (sorry for the late reply again, last weeks of school can be alot), and my experience is the same as yours. I can't really test the boot.initrd.systemd.enable =true though as I'm not using LUKS and don't plan too. Plus I also don't want to have to enable it as I'm using grub2 which is of course incompatible.

Anyway thank you so much for the work! I'm excited to see this work.