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13 Apr 2026
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughan error: Unsupported OVMF projectDscPath on armv6l 21:32:34
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughan *

error: Unsupported OVMF projectDscPath on armv6l

21:32:37
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughandisko's image builder doesn't support armv621:32:43
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughanmight be my fault 🧠21:36:43
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughanhttps://github.com/nix-community/disko/pull/643/changes21:36:45
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughanThen after you fix that, you can't use disko anyway since disko needs qemu in order to build images22:02:28
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughan
spandsp-aarch64-linux> checking for ld used by armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc... armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-ld
error: Cannot build '/nix/store/qjr624zrczgfj4vy6bpxiygaaf15xq6v-qemu-armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-10.2.2.drv'.
22:02:30
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughanwhich doesn't work because spandsp doesn't build and work on armv6l22:02:39
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughanlooks like disko is using a fuller qemu than it needs to ? 22:11:28
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughan You can set disko.imageBuilder.qemu, but why does disko default to a qemu that has gtk and opengl support? 22:11:48
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughan Looks like the lib/make-disk-image.nix hardcodes virtio_pci, which won't work on armv6 either 22:15:02
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@raj-magesh:matrix.orgRaj

Couple of questions about NixOS live USBs:

I want to partition my 64 GB USB flash drive into two partitions (FAT32 live USB + ext4 storage), so I used the following disko config:

let
  usb = "/dev/disk/by-id/usb-USB_SanDisk_3.2Gen1_0401a943ae4197a38a6f9070194e9ea2b3fb8dbb7997e05ed1b197c0e28946be4b8f000000000000000000001cf4be6800926418a955810751ab6336-0:0";
in {
  disko.devices = {
    disk = {
      live = {
        type = "disk";
        device = usb;
        content = {
          type = "gpt";
          partitions = {
            ESP = {
              type = "EF00";
              device = "${usb}-part1";
              priority = 0;
              size = "8192M";
              content = {
                type = "filesystem";
                format = "vfat";
              };
            };
            storage = {
              device = "${usb}-part2";
              priority = 1;
              size = "100%";
              content = {
                type = "filesystem";
                format = "ext4";
              };
            };
          };
        };
      };
    };
  };
}

I then copied over the files from the (minimal, non-graphical) NixOS live ISO into partition 1, hoping that the instructions on the Arch wiki would generalize to NixOS, but then my live ISO gets stuck with the following error message:

[...]
Timed out waiting for device /dev/root, trying to mount anyway
mounting /dev/root on /iso...
mount: mounting /dev/root on /mnt-root/iso failed: No such file or directory

An error occurred [...]

How can I use my USB flash drive as both a live USB and as a storage device? I found this relevant Discourse link but there was no resolution to the problem there.

I realize this might not be the best place to ask this, but I figured that folks here would have expertise configuring boot partitions correctly.

02:02:16
@raj-magesh:matrix.orgRaj *

Couple of questions about NixOS live USBs:

I want to partition my 64 GB USB flash drive into two partitions (FAT32 live USB + ext4 storage), so I used the following disko config:

let
  usb = "/dev/disk/by-id/usb-USB_SanDisk_3.2Gen1_0401a943ae4197a38a6f9070194e9ea2b3fb8dbb7997e05ed1b197c0e28946be4b8f000000000000000000001cf4be6800926418a955810751ab6336-0:0";
in {
  disko.devices = {
    disk = {
      live = {
        type = "disk";
        device = usb;
        content = {
          type = "gpt";
          partitions = {
            ESP = {
              type = "EF00";
              device = "${usb}-part1";
              priority = 0;
              size = "8192M";
              content = {
                type = "filesystem";
                format = "vfat";
              };
            };
            storage = {
              device = "${usb}-part2";
              priority = 1;
              size = "100%";
              content = {
                type = "filesystem";
                format = "ext4";
              };
            };
          };
        };
      };
    };
  };
}

I then copied over the files from the (minimal, non-graphical) NixOS live ISO into partition 1, hoping that the instructions on the Arch wiki would generalize to NixOS, but then my live ISO gets stuck with the following error message:

[...]
Timed out waiting for device /dev/root, trying to mount anyway
mounting /dev/root on /iso...
mount: mounting /dev/root on /mnt-root/iso failed: No such file or directory

An error occurred [...]

How can I use my USB flash drive as both a live USB and as a storage device? I found this relevant Discourse link but there was no resolution to the problem there.

I realize this might not be the best place to ask this, but I figured that folks here would have expertise configuring boot partitions correctly.

For reference, the NixOS manual says I should dd the ISO to the disk directly: sudo dd if=<path-to-image> of=/dev/sdX bs=4M conv=fsync

02:12:28
@tim92:matrix.orgtimI don't think that this will work since you need to unmount the live USB to format it as storage device07:16:00
@raj-magesh:matrix.orgRaj
In reply to @tim92:matrix.org
I don't think that this will work since you need to unmount the live USB to format it as storage device
Not sure what you mean, exactly. To clarify, I'm not trying to format the USB while it's live; I'm running this from an existing NixOS install.

If the"live USB" bit uses only ~1 GiB, there should be some way to make use of the remaining space, hopefully.
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@vartroc:matrix.org@vartroc:matrix.org

Soooo,
I have decided to just try it.
After debugging some syntax issues, I have encountered this bug:

error:
       … while evaluating the attribute 'diskoScript'

         at /nix/store/3mlzsgflq3z4wsk2arffhd999h1hj17g-disko/share/disko/lib/default.nix:418:15:

          417|
          418|               diskoScript = (diskoLib.writeCheckedBash { inherit pkgs checked; }) "disko" ''
             |               ^
          419|                 export PATH=${lib.makeBinPath ((cfg.config._packages pkgs) ++ [ pkgs.bash ])}:$PATH

       … in the condition of the assert statement

         at /nix/store/y11h0vfmjaf8j1796x0n2454hqldnbbr-0vyi8f8l8cya10dmgfrj0df2iqxlhiyi-source/pkgs/build-support/writers/scripts.nix:32:5:

           31|     assert (types.path.check nameOrPath) || (builtins.match "([0-9A-Za-z._])[0-9A-Za-z._-]*" nameOrPath != null);
           32|     assert (types.path.check content) || (types.str.check content);
             |     ^
           33|     let

       (stack trace truncated; use '--show-trace' to show the full trace)

       error: The option `disko.devices.disk.lvm_vg.root_vg' does not exist. Definition values:
       - In `<unknown-file>':
           {
             lvs = {
               games = {
                 content = {
                   extraArgs = [
           ...

Does anybody have any idea how I can fix this?

Here's my disko.nix:

{
disko.devices = {
	disk = {
		disk0 = {
			type = "disk";
			device = "/dev/nvme1n1";
			content = {
				type = "gpt";
				partitions = {
					esp = {
						name = "ESP";
						size = "500M";
						type = "EF00";
						content = {
							type = "filesystem";
							format = "vfat";
							mountpoint = "/boot";
						};
					};

					root = {
						name = "root0";
						size = "100%";
						content = {
							type = "lvm_pv";
							vg = "root_vg";
						};
					};
				};
			};
		};
		disk1 = {
			type = "disk";
			device = "/dev/nvme0n1";
			content = {
				type = "gpt";
				partitions = {
					root = {
						name = "root1";
						size = "100%";
						content = {
							type = "lvm_pv";
							vg = "root_vg";
						};
					};
				};
			};
		};

		lvm_vg = {
			root_vg = {
				type = "lvm_vg";
				lvs = {
					root = {
						size = "25%FREE";
						content = {
							type = "btrfs";
							extraArgs = ["-f"];
							subvolumes = {
								"/root" = {
							 	 mountpoint = "/";
								};

								"/persist" = {
								mountOptions = ["subvol=persist" "noatime"];
								mountpoint = "/persist";
								};

								"/nix" = {
								mountOptions = ["subvol=nix" "noatime"];
								mountpoint = "/nix";
								};
							};
						};
					};

					games = {
						size = "100%FREE";
						content = {
							type = "btrfs";
							extraArgs = ["-f"];
							subvolumes = {
								"/games" = {
								mountOptions = ["subvol=games" "noatime"];
								mountpoint = "/games";
								};
							};
						};
					};
				};
			};
		};
	};
};
}
15:33:36
@vartroc:matrix.org@vartroc:matrix.orgI couldn't find anything remotely connected with this bug15:34:34
@vartroc:matrix.org@vartroc:matrix.orgIf you need anything else from me, please ask18:58:57
@lassulus:lassul.uslassulusin line 43 you have root_vg but your vg is called root21:38:05
@lassulus:lassul.uslassulusso you would need to change the name also to root instead of root_vg21:38:19
@lassulus:lassul.uslassulusah wait no21:38:30
@lassulus:lassul.uslassulusI misread21:38:32
@lassulus:lassul.uslassuluslvm_vg is under disk instead of of being under lvm_vg in the toplevel21:39:15
@lassulus:lassul.uslassulusso the stuff from line 50 onwards needs to go one lever higher21:39:38

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