How to install with syslinux instead of grub

[matthiasbeyer]

How to do this?

Also: How to use nixos for kernel development. ATM (on my archlinux machine), when building a custom kernel, I copy it to /boot, generate the initramfs for it, and add the appropriate entry in my syslinux.cfg file. How to do this in a 'nixosish' way?

[wmertens]

Not sure about syslinux, but kernel config is covered under section #2.7 of the manual: http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#ch-configuration

I suggest you use the mailing list for questions like these instead. The issue tracker is for issues.

[domenkozar]

See #4678

[bobvanderlinden]

Not really relevant to your question directly, but at the moment you cannot configure boot entries for syslinux like you would with grub (or at least I haven't found so). @edolstra suggested here to create an abstraction for the boot entries, so that they can be used in both syslinux and grub.

What you can see here https://github.com/bobvanderlinden/nixpkgs/blob/67a9901ccf353f4279e9e1d383134deb95207b4d/nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/iso-image.nix#L12 is that the syslinux configuration is embedded in the (upcoming) iso generation. I think you'll have to do something similar in your machine configuration.

[matthiasbeyer]

I am not longer interested in this issue, so it could be closed. Don't know whether you guys want to leave it open, though!

[MrSorcus]

Up.
I can't found any options here https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html for install with syslinux.
Or only grub available?