(and nuke its references so that we don't get glibc etc.). The
initrd is now 3.2 MB (and that includes the entire staticTools from
the stdenv bootstrap, most of which we don't actually need).
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`modules-closure.nix' produces a module tree in
$out/lib/modules/VERSION that contains only the modules identified
by `rootModules', plus their dependencies. It also generates an
appropriate modules.dep. This is useful for initrds, as we
obviously don't want a copy of the entire kernel module tree in the
initial RAM disk.
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* make-initrd.nix: builds a initial RAM disk. The resulting initrd
will contain just a Nix store containing the specified lists of
packages, with a symlink `/init' to the actual init program in the
Nix store.
* make-iso9660-image.nix: builds a bootable ISO image.
* rescue-system.nix: builds a bootable ISO image (using the two
function above) that boots into a very minimal Linux environment
containing (at the moment) the dietlibc-based bash and coreutils,
loaded from the initrd. Eventually this should become a two-stage
boot (load kernel modules from the initrd, mount the actual root
file system (e.g., the installation CD), call the real init).
The rescue system (probably a misnomer) should become the minimal
environment necessary for the installer (on CD) and the boot process
of an installed NixOS (on HD).
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