| 14 Feb 2025 |
 lassulus | I'm not sure I understand the issue but yeah, the testframework is a bit underdocumented and I mostly did it in one big step | 16:34:58 |
 projectinitiative | I'll keep exploring through it. I appreciate the patience with my questions | 16:52:03 |
| 15 Feb 2025 |
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| 18 Feb 2025 |
| projectinitiative | Did some more investigating, and running into an issue with sgdisk not creating the partition labels when using GPT:
sgdisk --align-end --new=1:0:-0 --partition-guid=1:R --change-name=1:disk-disk3-bcachefs --typecode=1:8300 /dev/vdd
The auto populated /dev/disk/by-partlabel/disk-disk3-bcachefs path doesn't exist. I was reading some issues on github about a potential length issue, so I reduced the names of the disks to disk1 disk2 and disk3. Still facing this issue. Any insights would be great
| 15:15:54 |
| projectinitiative | * Did some more investigating, and running into an issue with sgdisk not creating the partition labels when using the GPT module:
sgdisk --align-end --new=1:0:-0 --partition-guid=1:R --change-name=1:disk-disk3-bcachefs --typecode=1:8300 /dev/vdd
The auto populated /dev/disk/by-partlabel/disk-disk3-bcachefs path doesn't exist. I was reading some issues on github about a potential length issue, so I reduced the names of the disks to disk1 disk2 and disk3. Still facing this issue. Any insights would be great
| 15:16:10 |
| lassulus | I have a memory of some udev rules being required to create partition labels | 15:31:12 |
| lassulus | Maybe that is the problem here | 15:31:20 |
| projectinitiative | Might be. I tried creating them interactively in the test VM and I couldn't get the labels to create. Curious if there is a different way to glean the newly created part. Maybe through the new UUID feature somehow. | 16:00:01 |
 dustee | how do i execute the disko drive formatting script for system in a flake .#nixosConfigurations.my-host ? im trying to install a system but i need to first format and mount the partitions before executing nixos-install because i run out of memory/storage otherwise | 20:52:59 |
| dustee | * how do i execute the disko drive formatting script for system in a flake .#nixosConfigurations.my-host ? im trying to install a system and i guess i need to first format and mount the partitions before executing nixos-install because i run out of memory/storage otherwise | 20:53:22 |
| dustee | disko /disk-config.nix is a thing i suppose, but i have some variables baked into the disko config in my flake so id need to eval that | 20:55:30 |
| dustee | nevermind, got rid of those vars so i can run disko as standalone | 21:13:17 |
| dustee | btw isnt it kinda weird that disko-install doesnt create and mount the partitions before downloading gigabytes of packages? it will run out of tmpfs memory everytime and unable to install | 21:15:46 |
| dustee | * btw isnt it kinda weird that disko-install doesnt create and mount the partitions before downloading gigabytes of packages? it will run out of tmpfs storage everytime and unable to install | 21:16:04 |
 SigmaSquadron | It'd probably make more sense to deprecate disko-install. Everyone seems to be using nixos-anywhere, clan, nixops, morph, or some other installer system. | 21:18:39 |
| dustee | dont all those require another nixos host to perform the nix commands? its usefull to be able to do it all with a single machine | 21:19:48 |
| dustee | * dont all those require another nixos host to perform the nix commands? its usefull to be able to do it all with a single machine booted into nixos-minimal | 21:20:08 |
| dustee | * dont all those require another nixos host to perform the nix commands? its useful to be able to do it all with a single machine booted into nixos-minimal | 21:20:13 |
| SigmaSquadron | Well, that's what nixos-install is for | 21:21:42 |
| dustee | i just had to separate disko out of my flake config so i could run disko and then nixos-install, it would be nicer to be able to do disko-install --flake myflake#myhost and it would destroy,format,mount,install,reboot,done | 21:24:12 |
| dustee | but i guess its w/e | 21:24:18 |
| 19 Feb 2025 |
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| projectinitiative | Anyone know the best way to pass `pkgs` to the gpt.nix module? I'm experimenting with the partition uuid | 15:28:34 |
 Sam Lehman | How are you debugging disko configs?
I have been repeatedly building system.build.vmWithDisko, but the edit -> rebuild feedback loop takes too long, & the build logs yield too little information. | 18:14:09 |
| Sam Lehman | I've been getting the error:
mount: /mnt/: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/pool-system, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
Not sure if I'm missing a dep or have something misconfigured. Is there a way to drop into this environment when the build fails, so I can actually run dmesg or inspect the fs & builder shell environment? | 18:19:38 |
| 20 Feb 2025 |
| projectinitiative | I add an example in the examples folder in a local copy of the disko repo. Then I add that example to the flake.nix file under the testmachine config. Then I load the flake with nix repl and play around with values and functions | 04:44:23 |
| @smolp:matrix.org | You can with nixos-anywhere | 20:42:11 |
| 21 Feb 2025 |
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