# This module builds the initial ramdisk, which contains an init
# script that performs the first stage of booting the system: it loads
# the modules necessary to mount the root file system, then calls the
# init in the root file system to start the second boot stage.
{ config, lib, utils, pkgs, ... }:
with lib;
let
udev = config.systemd.package;
kernel-name = config.boot.kernelPackages.kernel.name or "kernel";
modulesTree = config.system.modulesTree.override { name = kernel-name + "-modules"; };
firmware = config.hardware.firmware;
# Determine the set of modules that we need to mount the root FS.
modulesClosure = pkgs.makeModulesClosure {
rootModules = config.boot.initrd.availableKernelModules ++ config.boot.initrd.kernelModules;
kernel = modulesTree;
firmware = firmware;
allowMissing = false;
};
# The initrd only has to mount `/` or any FS marked as necessary for
# booting (such as the FS containing `/nix/store`, or an FS needed for
# mounting `/`, like `/` on a loopback).
fileSystems = filter utils.fsNeededForBoot config.system.build.fileSystems;
# A utility for enumerating the shared-library dependencies of a program
findLibs = pkgs.buildPackages.writeShellScriptBin "find-libs" ''
set -euo pipefail
declare -A seen
left=()
patchelf="${pkgs.buildPackages.patchelf}/bin/patchelf"
function add_needed {
rpath="$($patchelf --print-rpath $1)"
dir="$(dirname $1)"
for lib in $($patchelf --print-needed $1); do
left+=("$lib" "$rpath" "$dir")
done
}
add_needed "$1"
while [ ''${#left[@]} -ne 0 ]; do
next=''${left[0]}
rpath=''${left[1]}
ORIGIN=''${left[2]}
left=("''${left[@]:3}")
if [ -z ''${seen[$next]+x} ]; then
seen[$next]=1
# Ignore the dynamic linker which for some reason appears as a DT_NEEDED of glibc but isn't in glibc's RPATH.
case "$next" in
ld*.so.?) continue;;
esac
IFS=: read -ra paths <<< $rpath
res=
for path in "''${paths[@]}"; do
path=$(eval "echo $path")
if [ -f "$path/$next" ]; then
res="$path/$next"
echo "$res"
add_needed "$res"
break
fi
done
if [ -z "$res" ]; then
echo "Couldn't satisfy dependency $next" >&2
exit 1
fi
fi
done
'';
# Some additional utilities needed in stage 1, like mount, lvm, fsck
# etc. We don't want to bring in all of those packages, so we just
# copy what we need. Instead of using statically linked binaries,
# we just copy what we need from Glibc and use patchelf to make it
# work.
extraUtils = pkgs.runCommandCC "extra-utils"
{ nativeBuildInputs = [pkgs.buildPackages.nukeReferences];
allowedReferences = [ "out" ]; # prevent accidents like glibc being included in the initrd
}
''
set +o pipefail
mkdir -p $out/bin $out/lib
ln -s $out/bin $out/sbin
copy_bin_and_libs () {
[ -f "$out/bin/$(basename $1)" ] && rm "$out/bin/$(basename $1)"
cp -pdv $1 $out/bin
}
# Copy BusyBox.
for BIN in ${pkgs.busybox}/{s,}bin/*; do
copy_bin_and_libs $BIN
done
# Copy some util-linux stuff.
copy_bin_and_libs ${pkgs.util-linux}/sbin/blkid
# Copy dmsetup and lvm.
copy_bin_and_libs ${getBin pkgs.lvm2}/bin/dmsetup
copy_bin_and_libs ${getBin pkgs.lvm2}/bin/lvm
# Add RAID mdadm tool.
copy_bin_and_libs ${pkgs.mdadm}/sbin/mdadm
copy_bin_and_libs ${pkgs.mdadm}/sbin/mdmon
# Copy udev.
copy_bin_and_libs ${udev}/bin/udevadm
copy_bin_and_libs ${udev}/lib/systemd/systemd-sysctl
for BIN in ${udev}/lib/udev/*_id; do
copy_bin_and_libs $BIN
done
# systemd-udevd is only a symlink to udevadm these days
ln -sf udevadm $out/bin/systemd-udevd
# Copy modprobe.
copy_bin_and_libs ${pkgs.kmod}/bin/kmod
ln -sf kmod $out/bin/modprobe
# Copy resize2fs if any ext* filesystems are to be resized
${optionalString (any (fs: fs.autoResize && (lib.hasPrefix "ext" fs.fsType)) fileSystems) ''
# We need mke2fs in the initrd.
copy_bin_and_libs ${pkgs.e2fsprogs}/sbin/resize2fs
''}
# Copy secrets if needed.
#
# TODO: move out to a separate script; see #85000.
${optionalString (!config.boot.loader.supportsInitrdSecrets)
(concatStringsSep "\n" (mapAttrsToList (dest: source:
let source' = if source == null then dest else source; in
''
mkdir -p $(dirname "$out/secrets/${dest}")
# Some programs (e.g. ssh) doesn't like secrets to be
# symlinks, so we use `cp -L` here to match the
# behaviour when secrets are natively supported.
cp -Lr ${source'} "$out/secrets/${dest}"
''
) config.boot.initrd.secrets))
}
${config.boot.initrd.extraUtilsCommands}
# Copy ld manually since it isn't detected correctly
cp -pv ${pkgs.stdenv.cc.libc.out}/lib/ld*.so.? $out/lib
# Copy all of the needed libraries
find $out/bin $out/lib -type f | while read BIN; do
echo "Copying libs for executable $BIN"
for LIB in $(${findLibs}/bin/find-libs $BIN); do
TGT="$out/lib/$(basename $LIB)"
if [ ! -f "$TGT" ]; then
SRC="$(readlink -e $LIB)"
cp -pdv "$SRC" "$TGT"
fi
done
done
# Strip binaries further than normal.
chmod -R u+w $out
stripDirs "$STRIP" "lib bin" "-s"
# Run patchelf to make the programs refer to the copied libraries.
find $out/bin $out/lib -type f | while read i; do
if ! test -L $i; then
nuke-refs -e $out $i
fi
done
find $out/bin -type f | while read i; do
if ! test -L $i; then
echo "patching $i..."
patchelf --set-interpreter $out/lib/ld*.so.? --set-rpath $out/lib $i || true
fi
done
if [ -z "${toString (pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform != pkgs.stdenv.buildPlatform)}" ]; then
# Make sure that the patchelf'ed binaries still work.
echo "testing patched programs..."
$out/bin/ash -c 'echo hello world' | grep "hello world"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$out/lib
$out/bin/mount --help 2>&1 | grep -q "BusyBox"
$out/bin/blkid -V 2>&1 | grep -q 'libblkid'
$out/bin/udevadm --version
$out/bin/dmsetup --version 2>&1 | tee -a log | grep -q "version:"
LVM_SYSTEM_DIR=$out $out/bin/lvm version 2>&1 | tee -a log | grep -q "LVM"
$out/bin/mdadm --version
${config.boot.initrd.extraUtilsCommandsTest}
fi
''; # */
# Networkd link files are used early by udev to set up interfaces early.
# This must be done in stage 1 to avoid race conditions between udev and
# network daemons.
linkUnits = pkgs.runCommand "link-units" {
allowedReferences = [ extraUtils ];
preferLocalBuild = true;
} (''
mkdir -p $out
cp -v ${udev}/lib/systemd/network/*.link $out/
'' + (
let
links = filterAttrs (n: v: hasSuffix ".link" n) config.systemd.network.units;
files = mapAttrsToList (n: v: "${v.unit}/${n}") links;
in
concatMapStringsSep "\n" (file: "cp -v ${file} $out/") files
));
udevRules = pkgs.runCommand "udev-rules" {
allowedReferences = [ extraUtils ];
preferLocalBuild = true;
} ''
mkdir -p $out
echo 'ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}="${extraUtils}/lib"' > $out/00-env.rules
cp -v ${udev}/lib/udev/rules.d/60-cdrom_id.rules $out/
cp -v ${udev}/lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules $out/
cp -v ${udev}/lib/udev/rules.d/75-net-description.rules $out/
cp -v ${udev}/lib/udev/rules.d/80-drivers.rules $out/
cp -v ${udev}/lib/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules $out/
cp -v ${pkgs.lvm2}/lib/udev/rules.d/*.rules $out/
${config.boot.initrd.extraUdevRulesCommands}
for i in $out/*.rules; do
substituteInPlace $i \
--replace ata_id ${extraUtils}/bin/ata_id \
--replace scsi_id ${extraUtils}/bin/scsi_id \
--replace cdrom_id ${extraUtils}/bin/cdrom_id \
--replace ${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/basename ${extraUtils}/bin/basename \
--replace ${pkgs.util-linux}/bin/blkid ${extraUtils}/bin/blkid \
--replace ${getBin pkgs.lvm2}/bin ${extraUtils}/bin \
--replace ${pkgs.mdadm}/sbin ${extraUtils}/sbin \
--replace ${pkgs.bash}/bin/sh ${extraUtils}/bin/sh \
--replace ${udev} ${extraUtils}
done
# Work around a bug in QEMU, which doesn't implement the "READ
# DISC INFORMATION" SCSI command:
# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609049
# As a result, `cdrom_id' doesn't print
# ID_CDROM_MEDIA_TRACK_COUNT_DATA, which in turn prevents the
# /dev/disk/by-label symlinks from being created. We need these
# in the NixOS installation CD, so use ID_CDROM_MEDIA in the
# corresponding udev rules for now. This was the behaviour in
# udev <= 154. See also
# http://www.spinics.net/lists/hotplug/msg03935.html
substituteInPlace $out/60-persistent-storage.rules \
--replace ID_CDROM_MEDIA_TRACK_COUNT_DATA ID_CDROM_MEDIA
''; # */
# The init script of boot stage 1 (loading kernel modules for
# mounting the root FS).
bootStage1 = pkgs.substituteAll {
src = ./stage-1-init.sh;
shell = "${extraUtils}/bin/ash";
isExecutable = true;
postInstall = ''
echo checking syntax
# check both with bash
${pkgs.buildPackages.bash}/bin/sh -n $target
# and with ash shell, just in case
${pkgs.buildPackages.busybox}/bin/ash -n $target
'';
inherit linkUnits udevRules extraUtils modulesClosure;
inherit (config.boot) resumeDevice;
inherit (config.system.build) earlyMountScript;
inherit (config.boot.initrd) checkJournalingFS verbose
preLVMCommands preDeviceCommands postDeviceCommands postMountCommands preFailCommands kernelModules;
resumeDevices = map (sd: if sd ? device then sd.device else "/dev/disk/by-label/${sd.label}")
(filter (sd: hasPrefix "/dev/" sd.device && !sd.randomEncryption.enable
# Don't include zram devices
&& !(hasPrefix "/dev/zram" sd.device)
) config.swapDevices);
fsInfo =
let f = fs: [ fs.mountPoint (if fs.device != null then fs.device else "/dev/disk/by-label/${fs.label}") fs.fsType (builtins.concatStringsSep "," fs.options) ];
in pkgs.writeText "initrd-fsinfo" (concatStringsSep "\n" (concatMap f fileSystems));
setHostId = optionalString (config.networking.hostId != null) ''
hi="${config.networking.hostId}"
${if pkgs.stdenv.isBigEndian then ''
echo -ne "\x''${hi:0:2}\x''${hi:2:2}\x''${hi:4:2}\x''${hi:6:2}" > /etc/hostid
'' else ''
echo -ne "\x''${hi:6:2}\x''${hi:4:2}\x''${hi:2:2}\x''${hi:0:2}" > /etc/hostid
''}
'';
};
# The closure of the init script of boot stage 1 is what we put in
# the initial RAM disk.
initialRamdisk = pkgs.makeInitrd {
name = "initrd-${kernel-name}";
inherit (config.boot.initrd) compressor compressorArgs prepend;
contents =
[ { object = bootStage1;
symlink = "/init";
}
{ object = pkgs.writeText "mdadm.conf" config.boot.initrd.mdadmConf;
symlink = "/etc/mdadm.conf";
}
{ object = pkgs.runCommand "initrd-kmod-blacklist-ubuntu" {
src = "${pkgs.kmod-blacklist-ubuntu}/modprobe.conf";
preferLocalBuild = true;
} ''
target=$out
${pkgs.buildPackages.perl}/bin/perl -0pe 's/## file: iwlwifi.conf(.+?)##/##/s;' $src > $out
'';
symlink = "/etc/modprobe.d/ubuntu.conf";
}
{ object = pkgs.kmod-debian-aliases;
symlink = "/etc/modprobe.d/debian.conf";
}
];
};
# Script to add secret files to the initrd at bootloader update time
initialRamdiskSecretAppender =
let
compressorExe = initialRamdisk.compressorExecutableFunction pkgs;
in pkgs.writeScriptBin "append-initrd-secrets"
''
#!${pkgs.bash}/bin/bash -e
function usage {
echo "USAGE: $0 INITRD_FILE" >&2
echo "Appends this configuration's secrets to INITRD_FILE" >&2
}
if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
usage
exit 1
fi
if [ "$1"x = "--helpx" ]; then
usage
exit 0
fi
${lib.optionalString (config.boot.initrd.secrets == {})
"exit 0"}
export PATH=${pkgs.coreutils}/bin:${pkgs.cpio}/bin:${pkgs.gzip}/bin:${pkgs.findutils}/bin
function cleanup {
if [ -n "$tmp" -a -d "$tmp" ]; then
rm -fR "$tmp"
fi
}
trap cleanup EXIT
tmp=$(mktemp -d initrd-secrets.XXXXXXXXXX)
${lib.concatStringsSep "\n" (mapAttrsToList (dest: source:
let source' = if source == null then dest else toString source; in
''
mkdir -p $(dirname "$tmp/${dest}")
cp -aL ${source'} "$tmp/${dest}"
''
) config.boot.initrd.secrets)
}
(cd "$tmp" && find . -print0 | sort -z | cpio --quiet -o -H newc -R +0:+0 --reproducible --null) | \
${compressorExe} ${lib.escapeShellArgs initialRamdisk.compressorArgs} >> "$1"
'';
in
{
disabledModules = [ "system/boot/stage-1.nix" ];
options = {
boot.resumeDevice = mkOption {
type = types.str;
default = "";
example = "/dev/sda3";
description = ''
Device for manual resume attempt during boot. This should be used primarily
if you want to resume from file. If left empty, the swap partitions are used.
Specify here the device where the file resides.
You should also use boot.kernelParams to specify
resume_offset.
'';
};
boot.initrd.enable = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = !config.boot.isContainer;
defaultText = "!config.boot.isContainer";
description = ''
Whether to enable the NixOS initial RAM disk (initrd). This may be
needed to perform some initialisation tasks (like mounting
network/encrypted file systems) before continuing the boot process.
'';
};
boot.initrd.prepend = mkOption {
default = [ ];
type = types.listOf types.str;
description = ''
Other initrd files to prepend to the final initrd we are building.
'';
};
boot.initrd.checkJournalingFS = mkOption {
default = true;
type = types.bool;
description = ''
Whether to run fsck on journaling filesystems such as ext3.
'';
};
boot.initrd.mdadmConf = mkOption {
default = "";
type = types.lines;
description = ''
Contents of /etc/mdadm.conf in stage 1.
'';
};
boot.initrd.preLVMCommands = mkOption {
default = "";
type = types.lines;
description = ''
Shell commands to be executed immediately before LVM discovery.
'';
};
boot.initrd.preDeviceCommands = mkOption {
default = "";
type = types.lines;
description = ''
Shell commands to be executed before udev is started to create
device nodes.
'';
};
boot.initrd.postDeviceCommands = mkOption {
default = "";
type = types.lines;
description = ''
Shell commands to be executed immediately after stage 1 of the
boot has loaded kernel modules and created device nodes in
/dev.
'';
};
boot.initrd.postMountCommands = mkOption {
default = "";
type = types.lines;
description = ''
Shell commands to be executed immediately after the stage 1
filesystems have been mounted.
'';
};
boot.initrd.preFailCommands = mkOption {
default = "";
type = types.lines;
description = ''
Shell commands to be executed before the failure prompt is shown.
'';
};
boot.initrd.extraUtilsCommands = mkOption {
internal = true;
default = "";
type = types.lines;
description = ''
Shell commands to be executed in the builder of the
extra-utils derivation. This can be used to provide
additional utilities in the initial ramdisk.
'';
};
boot.initrd.extraUtilsCommandsTest = mkOption {
internal = true;
default = "";
type = types.lines;
description = ''
Shell commands to be executed in the builder of the
extra-utils derivation after patchelf has done its
job. This can be used to test additional utilities
copied in extraUtilsCommands.
'';
};
boot.initrd.extraUdevRulesCommands = mkOption {
internal = true;
default = "";
type = types.lines;
description = ''
Shell commands to be executed in the builder of the
udev-rules derivation. This can be used to add
additional udev rules in the initial ramdisk.
'';
};
boot.initrd.compressor = mkOption {
default = (
if lib.versionAtLeast config.boot.kernelPackages.kernel.version "5.9"
then "zstd"
else "gzip"
);
defaultText = "zstd if the kernel supports it (5.9+), gzip if not.";
type = types.unspecified; # We don't have a function type...
description = ''
The compressor to use on the initrd image. May be any of:
The name of one of the predefined compressors, see pkgs/build-support/kernel/initrd-compressor-meta.nix for the definitions.
A function which, given the nixpkgs package set, returns the path to a compressor tool, e.g. pkgs: "''${pkgs.pigz}/bin/pigz"
(not recommended, because it does not work when cross-compiling) the full path to a compressor tool, e.g. "''${pkgs.pigz}/bin/pigz"
The given program should read data from stdin and write it to stdout compressed.
'';
example = "xz";
};
boot.initrd.compressorArgs = mkOption {
default = null;
type = types.nullOr (types.listOf types.str);
description = "Arguments to pass to the compressor for the initrd image, or null to use the compressor's defaults.";
};
boot.initrd.secrets = mkOption
{ default = {};
type = types.attrsOf (types.nullOr types.path);
description =
''
Secrets to append to the initrd. The attribute name is the
path the secret should have inside the initrd, the value
is the path it should be copied from (or null for the same
path inside and out).
'';
example = literalExample
''
{ "/etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key" =
./secret-dropbear-key;
}
'';
};
boot.initrd.supportedFilesystems = mkOption {
default = [ ];
example = [ "btrfs" ];
type = types.listOf types.str;
description = "Names of supported filesystem types in the initial ramdisk.";
};
boot.initrd.verbose = mkOption {
default = true;
type = types.bool;
description =
''
Verbosity of the initrd. Please note that disabling verbosity removes
only the mandatory messages generated by the NixOS scripts. For a
completely silent boot, you might also want to set the two following
configuration options:
boot.consoleLogLevel = 0;
boot.kernelParams = [ "quiet" "udev.log_priority=3" ];
'';
};
boot.loader.supportsInitrdSecrets = mkOption
{ internal = true;
default = false;
type = types.bool;
description =
''
Whether the bootloader setup runs append-initrd-secrets.
If not, any needed secrets must be copied into the initrd
and thus added to the store.
'';
};
fileSystems = mkOption {
type = with lib.types; attrsOf (submodule {
options.neededForBoot = mkOption {
default = false;
type = types.bool;
description = ''
If set, this file system will be mounted in the initial ramdisk.
Note that the file system will always be mounted in the initial
ramdisk if its mount point is one of the following:
${concatStringsSep ", " (
forEach utils.pathsNeededForBoot (i: "${i}")
)}.
'';
};
});
};
};
config = mkIf config.boot.initrd.enable {
assertions = [
{ assertion = any (fs: fs.mountPoint == "/") fileSystems;
message = "The ‘fileSystems’ option does not specify your root file system.";
}
{ assertion = let inherit (config.boot) resumeDevice; in
resumeDevice == "" || builtins.substring 0 1 resumeDevice == "/";
message = "boot.resumeDevice has to be an absolute path."
+ " Old \"x:y\" style is no longer supported.";
}
# TODO: remove when #85000 is fixed
{ assertion = !config.boot.loader.supportsInitrdSecrets ->
all (source:
builtins.isPath source ||
(builtins.isString source && hasPrefix builtins.storeDir source))
(attrValues config.boot.initrd.secrets);
message = ''
boot.loader.initrd.secrets values must be unquoted paths when
using a bootloader that doesn't natively support initrd
secrets, e.g.:
boot.initrd.secrets = {
"/etc/secret" = /path/to/secret;
};
Note that this will result in all secrets being stored
world-readable in the Nix store!
'';
}
];
system.build =
{ inherit bootStage1 initialRamdisk initialRamdiskSecretAppender extraUtils; };
system.requiredKernelConfig = with config.lib.kernelConfig; [
(isYes "TMPFS")
(isYes "BLK_DEV_INITRD")
];
boot.initrd.supportedFilesystems = map (fs: fs.fsType) fileSystems;
};
}