whole entire revamp

hosts/server/hardware-configuration.nix

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Do not modify this file!  It was generated by ‘nixos-generate-config’
 # and may be overwritten by future invocations.  Please make changes
 # to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix instead.
+# 🤓☝
 { config, lib, pkgs, modulesPath, ... }:
 
 {
@@ -8,10 +9,18 @@
     [ (modulesPath + "/installer/scan/not-detected.nix")
     ];
 
-  boot.initrd.availableKernelModules = [ "xhci_pci" "usbhid" "usb_storage" ];
-  boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ ];
-  boot.kernelModules = [ ];
-  boot.extraModulePackages = [ ];
+  boot = {
+    loader = {
+      grub.enable = false;
+      generic-extlinux-compatible.enable = true;
+    };
+    initrd = {
+      availableKernelModules = [ "xhci_pci" "usbhid" "usb_storage" ];
+      kernelModules = [ ];
+    };
+    kernelModules = [ ];
+    extraModulePackages = [ ];
+  };
 
   fileSystems."/" =
     { device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/44444444-4444-4444-8888-888888888888";