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This config is for Librem 13v3 and 15v3 Laptops from Purism.
Librem comes with Coreboot + SeaBIOS payload. That means EFI boot is not
possible. Use fdisk
to partition hard drive, and GRUB as a bootloader:
{
boot.loader.grub = {
enable = true;
device = "/dev/sda";
version = 2;
};
}
Adding a PureOS partition to the GRUB menu
I first assume that boot.loader.grub.useOSProber = true;
should be sufficient.
However GRUB was not able to identify the disks correctly and it took me several
reinstallation till setting boot.loader.grub.fsIdentifier= "provided";
and using
boot.loader.grub.extraEntries allowed me to dual boot NixOS and PureOS.
Be aware that each time the PureOS updates the /boot/grub/grub.cfg you will be unable to boot into NixOS unless you patch grub.cfg manually again.
Therefore: If you want to be able to boot into your old PureOS distribution add the following lines, assuming that you have a separate boot partition Adapt linux version and the UUID to your disk!!
{
boot.loader.grub.useOSProber = false;
boot.loader.grub.fsIdentifier= "provided";
boot.loader.grub.extraEntries = ''
menuentry "PureOS with linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 on /dev/sdb2 " {
insmod gzio
if [ x$grub_platform = xxen ]; then insmod xzio; insmod lzopio; fi
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1 ef7a4dcf-8cc4-4870-b860-3ed64906f9b9
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ef7a4dcf-8cc4-4870-b860-3ed64906f9b9
fi
linux /vmlinuz-4.19.0-5-amd64 root=UUID=43899f26-04f2-4ccb-b52a-c9441f1a1a6d ro quiet splash resume=UUID=923317f8-d8bb-4e1f-bca3-f36a556de609 # $vt_handoff
initrd /initrd.img-4.19.0-5-amd64
};
}