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Use Mobile NixOS' boot selection GUI #8

Closed samueldr closed 4 years ago

samueldr commented 4 years ago

See NixOS/mobile-nixos#80.

The big idea is to setup the boot so that:

The main drawback would be the loss of trivial kernel updates until NixOS/mobile-nixos#82 is implemented.

NixOS/mobile-nixos#83 blocks this.

samueldr commented 4 years ago

See https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/pull/94.

This is usable right now, but needs some finessing to integrate in an existing system. It's something I intend to work on at some point for my own use.

tgunnoe commented 4 years ago

is this the same as feature/u-boot-gfx?

Can this be adapted to other NixOS compatible platforms? the one i'm looking at adapting is armv7 running on Novena

samueldr commented 4 years ago

Different solution to the same problem.

This is not something I'm working on anymore as a target since now we have the, admittedly better, u-boot graphical init.

Anyway, oops, this is now possible:

But this still has the Mobile NixOS caveat of making kernel upgrades awkward.

You might be interested in trying to get the Mobile NixOS stage-1 for the Novena working, but the better solution would be to get a u-boot that uses the display output.