nixosModules.image builds a GPT disk image with systemd-repart: ESP with a
UKI carrying the store's verity root hash, an erofs /nix/store on a
dm-verity partition, a tmpfs root, an immutable /etc overlay and an ext4
state partition on /var. No Nix on the device; it is replaced as a whole.
The store is made with 4 KiB erofs blocks: systemd-repart passes the 512
byte sector size to mkfs.erofs, and libblkid cannot verify the checksum of
such a superblock, so udev never reported the file system and the initrd
waited forever for /dev/mapper/usr.
examples/image (nix build .#image) is a hardware test build with a debug
console password; checks.image boots the image under UEFI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
nilsandClaude Opus 5.5
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