OCI Oracle7.9 used to work

[keithy]

Now hangs at "Welcome to Grub2"

only obvious error

+/nix/var/nix/profiles/system/bin/switch-to-configuration boot
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    LANGUAGE = (unset),
    LC_ALL = (unset),
    LANG = "en_GB.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

Ubuntu 20.04-slim worked
Ubuntu 22.04-slim worked

[ghost]

@keithy it appears to be possible environment variable not being set right. are you able to run testing on nixos-infect by passing the newer channel 22.11 ?

[keithy]

Oracle7.9 worked with 22.11

#         Start          End    Size  Type               Name
# 1         2048       411647    200M  EFI System        EFI System Partition
# 2       411648     17188863      8G  Linux swap      
# 3     17188864     97675263   38.4G  Microsoft basic 

Oracle8.6 worked with 22.11

# Device       Start      End  Sectors  Size Type
# /dev/sda1     2048   206847   204800  100M EFI System
# /dev/sda2   206848  2303999  2097152    1G Linux filesystem
# /dev/sda3  2304000 97675263 95371264 45.5G Linux LVM

# Disk /dev/mapper/ocivolume-oled: 10 GiB, 10737418240 bytes, 20971520 sectors
# Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
# Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
# I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 1048576 bytes


# Disk /dev/mapper/ocivolume-root: 35.47 GiB, 38088474624 bytes, 74391552 sectors
# Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
# Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
# I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 1048576 bytes

Oracle9.0 worked with 22.11