From 3131daace1eed2b642ab56c5843fd2057fbbfde3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas@tuxera.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:27:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] nixos/tests/installer: Give eval failure on unsupported boot
 methods

---
 nixos/tests/installer.nix | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/nixos/tests/installer.nix b/nixos/tests/installer.nix
index f67011b4412c1..acf248d0a5a66 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/installer.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/installer.nix
@@ -80,8 +80,9 @@ let
         + optionalString isEfi (if pkgs.stdenv.isAarch64
             then ''bios => "${pkgs.OVMF.fd}/FV/QEMU_EFI.fd", ''
             else ''bios => "${pkgs.OVMF.fd}/FV/OVMF.fd", '');
-    in
-    ''
+    in if !isEfi && !(pkgs.stdenv.isi686 || pkgs.stdenv.isx86_64) then
+      throw "Non-EFI boot methods are only supported on i686 / x86_64"
+    else ''
       $machine->start;
 
       # Make sure that we get a login prompt etc.