NixOS Facter: a declarative hardware configuration for NixOS is inviting the community to try it out.
NixOS Facter: a declarative hardware configuration for NixOS is inviting the community to try it out.
Since we introduced NixOS Facter six weeks ago (Better hardware-detection with nixos-facter), we’ve mainly focused on refining and stabilising the report format and establishing some essential documentation. I’m happy to say that work is now done, and we’d like to invite the community to try it out...
NixOS Facter aims to be an alternative to projects such as NixOS Hardware and nixos-generate-config. It solves the problem of bootstrapping NixOS configurations by deferring decisions about hardware and other aspects of the target platform to NixOS modules.
I had a frustrating issue yesterday. I had removed drives, and forgot to edit my hardware config, so it kept failing to boot and would go into emergency mode, which I didn’t have an internet connection in so I couldn’t rebuild.
I ended up having to figure out which drive was missing in order to get it to boot (long story, I had to go through a stack of 4tb drives to find the right one).
How could I have fixed this issue had the drive not been available? Manually bringing up the network stack, I suppose?