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Commits on Aug 24, 2018

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  2. Adds refind to the installer image.

    This is a 277K (as of right now) addition that can greatly help in some
    last recourse scenarios. The specific rEFInd setup will not be able to
    boot the installer image, but this is not why it has been added. It has
    been added to make use of its volumes scanning capabilities to boot
    existing EFI images on the target computer, which is sometimes necessary
    with buggy EFI. While is isn't NixOS's job to fix buggy EFI, shipping
    this small bit with the installer will help the unlucky few.
    
    Example scenario: two wildly different EFI implementation I have
    encountered have fatal flaws in which they sometimes will lose all the
    settings, this includes boot configuration. This is compounded by the
    fact that the two specific and distinct implementation do not allow
    manually adding ESP paths from their interface. The only recourse is to
    let the EFI boot the default paths, EFI/boot/boot{platform}.efi, which
    is not a default location used by the NixOS bootloaders. rEFInd is able
    to scan the volumes and detect the existing efi bootloaders, and boot
    them successfully.
    samueldr committed Aug 24, 2018
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  3. Use a themed grub for the installer image

    This replaces systemd-boot with grub, it is at feature parity, as in it
    can do everything systemd-boot did in the previous commit.
    samueldr committed Aug 24, 2018
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Commits on Aug 29, 2018

  1. Merge pull request #33686 from samueldr/artwork/iso

    (Installation media) Bootloader artwork refresh
    grahamc committed Aug 29, 2018
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