1 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/nixpkgs/nixos/modules/system/boot/stage-1-init.sh b/nixpkgs/nixos/modules/system/boot/stage-1-init.sh
index bad045ec101f..bc2fc7f7b108 100644
--- a/nixpkgs/nixos/modules/system/boot/stage-1-init.sh
+++ b/nixpkgs/nixos/modules/system/boot/stage-1-init.sh
@@ -114,6 +114,28 @@ waitDevice() {
     done
 }
 
+# Create the mount point if required.
+makeMountPoint() {
+    local device="$1"
+    local mountPoint="$2"
+    local options="$3"
+
+    local IFS=,
+
+    # If we're bind mounting a file, the mount point should also be a file.
+    if ! [ -d "$device" ]; then
+        for opt in $options; do
+            if [ "$opt" = bind ] || [ "$opt" = rbind ]; then
+                mkdir -p "$(dirname "/mnt-root$mountPoint")"
+                touch "/mnt-root$mountPoint"
+                return
+            fi
+        done
+    fi
+
+    mkdir -m 0755 -p "/mnt-root$mountPoint"
+}
+
 # Mount special file systems.
 specialMount() {
   local device="$1"
@@ -384,7 +406,7 @@ mountFS() {
 
     info "mounting $device on $mountPoint..."
 
-    mkdir -p "/mnt-root$mountPoint"
+    makeMountPoint "$device" "$mountPoint" "$optionsPrefixed"
 
     # For ZFS and CIFS mounts, retry a few times before giving up.
     # We do this for ZFS as a workaround for issue NixOS/nixpkgs#25383.