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Resources to install NixOS bare metal on Apple Silicon Macs
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Generation select corrupt/incorrect #186

Closed TLMcNulty closed 2 months ago

TLMcNulty commented 2 months ago

I'd expect the NixOS generation/GRUB looking menu to be centered, and to display a countdown/menu options as it does in a stock configuration.

Been looking on the NixOS discourse, netted nothing. My post there - https://discourse.nixos.org/t/corrupted-inappropriate-bootloader-generation-select-text/42393

As detailed there I've run the relevant NixOS steps I could find for regenerating the bootloader.

Pic: PXL_20240320_205110386

It functions as I'd expect but the menu options at the bottom are dirty.

tpwrules commented 2 months ago

This is just how it is due to some deficiencies in U-Boot. Allegedly there is a U-Boot fix in the pipeline but it hasn't been released to the Fedora Asahi Remix yet so I haven't taken it. It does not bother me much personally. I suppose it could be annoying if you need to edit the command line.

TLMcNulty commented 2 months ago

This is a fine answer, thank you! I was concerned I'd been unlucky during setup. I'll refer to u-boot docs and source to investigate further. As it is functional it doesn't bother me much either.

tpwrules commented 2 months ago

https://github.com/jannau/u-boot-1/commits/asahi-vidconsole-fixes/