NixOS Installation Guide/multibootusb
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When using multibootusb to create a boot stick, which can boot multiple ISOs and then booting the NixOS ISO from it, there is a problem with mounting the ISO in the first stage.
It says something like
An error occurred in stage 1 of the boot process, which must mount the root filesystem on '/mnt-root' and start the stage 2. Press one of the following keys: i) to launch an interactive shell f) to start an interactive shell having pid 1 (needed if you want to start stage 2's init manually) r) to reboot immediately *) to ignore the error and continue
Then press i to launch a shell. In the shell execute
# fdisk -l #To find the block device for your multiboot partition on the usb stick.
# mkdir /mnt
# mount /dev/sdXY /mnt #Use the multiboot partition's block device
# mount -o loop -t iso9660 /mnt/multiboot/nixos-<version>-linux/nixos-<version>-linux.iso /mnt-root/iso/
# exit
Now the boot process should continue as usual.