What should I add to my NixOS configuration?
Proceed with NixOS installation manual (do not forget to install GRUB, just as with 32-bit system). Add one extra thing to your configuration: i686 GRUB. To do that, add to the grub section of your configuration. If you have some problems with installation, report them on #nixos on freenode.
How to boot NixOS from the root partition?
For these instructions, GRUB will be required; systemd-boot cannot reference boot files from the root partition. This will differ from the default expectation of NixOS on EFI, where /boot/ is the ESP . fileSystems.”/boot/efi” = # ← mount your ESP here instead of at /boot/.
How to enable boot.crashdump in NixOS 20.09?
Declared by: boot.consoleLogLevel The kernel console loglevel. All Kernel Messages with a log level smaller than this setting will be printed to the console. Type:signed integer Default:4 Declared by: boot.crashDump.enable
Can you boot NixOS from a USB stick?
If you do, remove USB stick and flash 64-bit version of NixOS onto it. Plug it in your PC and boot into GRUB you have just installed. Now we have to boot a 64-bit system from USB stick manually.
How to install a 32 bit bootloader on NixOS?
To install a full 64-bit system with 32-bit bootloader, you need to take the following steps: Download both latest “Minimal installation CD, 32-bit Intel/AMD” and “Minimal installation CD, 64-bit Intel/AMD” from https://nixos.org/nixos/download.html. Flash 32-bit version on USB stick and boot it.
Where can I find the Nix package manager?
Additional information regarding the Nix package manager and the Nixpkgs project can be found in respectively the Nix manual and the Nixpkgs manual . If you encounter problems, please report them on the Discourse or on the #nixos channel on Freenode. Bugs should be reported in NixOS’ GitHub issue tracker .
How can I delete a file in Nix?
They can be deleted with nix-collect-garbage -d or nix-store –gc. Note that if a result file still exists in the file system, and your Nix configuration has both keep-outputs = true and keep-derivations = true, all the dependencies used to build it will be kept.