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7<title>UEFI Installation</title>
8
9<para>NixOS can also be installed on UEFI systems. The procedure
10is by and large the same as a BIOS installation, with the following
11changes:
12
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14 <listitem>
15 <para>You should boot the live CD in UEFI mode (consult your
16 specific hardware's documentation for instructions). You may find
17 the <link
18 xlink:href="http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind">rEFInd
19 boot manager</link> useful.</para>
20 </listitem>
21 <listitem>
22 <para>Instead of <command>fdisk</command>, you should use
23 <command>gdisk</command> to partition your disks. You will need to
24 have a separate partition for <filename>/boot</filename> with
25 partition code EF00, and it should be formatted as a
26 <literal>vfat</literal> filesystem.</para>
27 </listitem>
28 <listitem>
29 <para>Instead of <option>boot.loader.grub.device</option>,
30 you must set <option>boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable</option> to
31 <literal>true</literal>. <command>nixos-generate-config</command>
32 should do this automatically for new configurations when booted in
33 UEFI mode.</para>
34 </listitem>
35 <listitem>
36 <para>After having mounted your installation partition to
37 <code>/mnt</code>, you must mount the <code>boot</code> partition
38 to <code>/mnt/boot</code>.</para>
39 </listitem>
40 <listitem>
41 <para>You may want to look at the options starting with
42 <option>boot.loader.efi</option> and <option>boot.loader.systemd-boot</option>
43 as well.</para>
44 </listitem>
45</itemizedlist>
46</para>
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