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authorMark Nipper <nipsy@bitgnome.net>2026-04-30 14:04:31 -0700
committerMark Nipper <nipsy@bitgnome.net>2026-04-30 14:04:31 -0700
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@@ -87,3 +87,11 @@ which should walk you through the rest of the installation.
As part of the installation, the Git repo you grabbed above to perform the installation was also copied to /etc/nixos on your new system. Keeping a NixOS system up to date means keeping your living system configuration up to date also.
To make this task slightly easier if this is your first NixOS installation, you can run the script `/etc/nixos/scripts/pretty-rebuild` as root which will perform a standard nixos-rebuild command to upgrade the system along with some informational output after that command finishes on what may have changed.
+
+### Rescue
+
+You might need to boot into a rescue initrd environment. In order to successfully do that, you'll probably need to add the following to your kernel command line:
+
+```
+rescue systemd.setenv=SYSTEMD_SULOGIN_FORCE=1
+```