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There were a few things that were not clear to me from the installation instructions:\r\n\r\n1. That I have to create a `boot` partition.\r\n2. What is a reasonable size for the boot partition (default/min/max).\r\n3. That I have to `mount /dev/sdaN /boot` myself or else `nixos-install` will fail.\r\n\r\nOtherwise I have been *extremely* impressed with the installation procedure and documentation. (I previously did a non-UEFI install and that was flawless. For some reason this second server did not offer to boot the USB stick in BIOS mode and this seemed to force me to install NixOS under UEFI.)"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/comments/243710658","html_url":"https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9096#issuecomment-243710658","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9096","id":243710658,"user":{"login":"shlevy","id":487050,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/487050?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/shlevy","html_url":"https://github.com/shlevy","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shlevy/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shlevy/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shlevy/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shlevy/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shlevy/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shlevy/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shlevy/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shlevy/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shlevy/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-08-31T09:33:10Z","updated_at":"2016-08-31T09:33:10Z","body":"@domenkozar Technically your firmware is allowed to support other filesystems, but in practice I don't know of any that support, say, ext2 (Macbooks support hfs, of course). All support fat32. You need to have your kernel and bootloader on a firmware-supported filesystem marked as an EFI system partition to do EFI boot.\r\n\r\nFor what it's worth I'm not sure what exactly this issue is asking about. What needs to change, specifically?"}}
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