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Re: [SOLVED] First (2024-04-13,) Excalibur amd64 netinstall iso, fails kernel panic

dummy@example.com (bilhook) — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 08:38:55 +0000

I have a blank Foresee 64GB mSATA SSD in a mini-itx,
I've put Daedalus and Excalibur on it, barebones, I unstarred install minimal stuff.
On a 19 1/2" monitor, I'm now looking at ls -m /usr/share/doc.
On the surface anyway! I see that Daedalus has dummy package lsb-base, and util-linux-extra, and Excalibur has systemd-standalone-sysusers, and usr-is-merged.
The testing iso's appeared on the mirrors, so I gave it a try, and am proud of my small yet valid participation in testing.
I am learning things, I am happy.
wpasupplicant, and wireless-tools, work, so that's good.

Guide

https://files.devuan.org/devuan_excalib … README.txt

Re: [SOLVED] First (2024-04-13,) Excalibur amd64 netinstall iso, fails kernel panic

dummy@example.com (bilhook) — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:51:37 +0000

my mistake failure,
usrmerge is not installed
usr-is-merged is an empty package
which infers that the one way ticket silly-links not happened.

Re: [SOLVED] First (2024-04-13,) Excalibur amd64 netinstall iso, fails kernel panic

dummy@example.com (bilhook) — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:46:43 +0000

dmesg shows tpm_crb Firmware Bug ACPI

Re: [SOLVED] First (2024-04-13,) Excalibur amd64 netinstall iso, fails kernel panic

dummy@example.com (bilhook) — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:26:45 +0000

And yes it doesn't install without silly-links.
Debootstrap Error
The following error occurred:
Unmerged /usr is not compatible with excalibur

I think most of all, thank you for the most important lingua franca, silly-links.
At this stage of playing around testing, should us amateurs fret about this silly-links one way ticket.

Re: [SOLVED] First (2024-04-13,) Excalibur amd64 netinstall iso, fails kernel panic

dummy@example.com (bilhook) — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:16:30 +0000

Without Change debconf priority which I guess is low anyway,
it is installing with silly-links.
Now I see that the kernel is 6.6.15.
SUCCESS

Re: [SOLVED] First (2024-04-13,) Excalibur amd64 netinstall iso, fails kernel panic

dummy@example.com (bilhook) — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:50:14 +0000

I'm back from the shops.
I will now try the 20240424 from nluug dot nl.
I have 3 cheap as chips computers, laptop, mini-itx, mini-pc, all circa EFI Celeron N3350.
I am writing this in refractasnapshot on the mini-pc with a 10 inch monitor.
The most reliable is the ASRock mini-itx, followed by the Asus laptop, then the BMAX mini-pc.
When I tried to install on the laptop, it didn't even get to the initial menu until I acpi=off.
This is the kernel.
6.1.0-16 introduced some not small acpi problems, 6.1.0-20 ok.
I will now get the iso and try it and post again in 10 minutes .

Re: [SOLVED] First (2024-04-13,) Excalibur amd64 netinstall iso, fails kernel panic

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:05:19 +0000

fwiw, I've now confirmed that the pulished 20240424... iso for me completes base system installation with hands-on as outlined above.

Re: [SOLVED] First (2024-04-13,) Excalibur amd64 netinstall iso, fails kernel panic

dummy@example.com (bilhook) — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:14:57 +0000

I don't know much about computers but I know that the words ralph.ronnquist and failed in the same sentence does not compute!
I'm off out to the shops for some bobby beans and a bottle of wine.
Don't stay up too late down under!
Work in progress.

Re: [SOLVED] First (2024-04-13,) Excalibur amd64 netinstall iso, fails kernel panic

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:08:28 +0000

Argh! With the downloaded netinstall the failure is that "usr-is-merged" is unavailable.
I thought I had worked around that issue but obviously failed ... yes, failed to add that workaround to the commit.
Thanks for testing. There is a new collection (including that commit) coming up shortly.

Re: [SOLVED] First (2024-04-13,) Excalibur amd64 netinstall iso, fails kernel panic

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:00:23 +0000

Ok. Strange. Though I'm using a separate netinstall build so I will download the published one and try that.

"VM" is "virtual Machine", i.e. a machine emulator. I use "qemu-system-x86_64" in its default hardware emulation... with an (emulated) ethernet card, so I'll try without that as well. And the ISO is presented as a cdrom but that also shouldn't make a difference.

Re: [SOLVED] First (2024-04-13,) Excalibur amd64 netinstall iso, fails kernel panic

dummy@example.com (bilhook) — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:50:39 +0000

I've always done install offline barebones.
When I get to that stage, I unstar, install standard stuff,
use vi editor

Re: [SOLVED] First (2024-04-13,) Excalibur amd64 netinstall iso, fails kernel panic

dummy@example.com (bilhook) — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:46:58 +0000

I am using netinstall, as I always have done since I went Debian after Red Hat 6.
My ethernet card is disabled in bios, and my wireless usb card is not plugged in.
I am netinstall offline.
I have checked the integrity of the installation media.
I don't know what a VM is exactly.

Re: [SOLVED] First (2024-04-13,) Excalibur amd64 netinstall iso, fails kernel panic

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:40:11 +0000

Are you using "netinstall", "server" or "desktop" ? I'm using netinstall in a VM and have success with the hands-on I outlined. It you're using "server" or "desktop" I can check with those, though the installer software for the base system is meant to be the same.

Re: [SOLVED] First (2024-04-13,) Excalibur amd64 netinstall iso, fails kernel panic

dummy@example.com (bilhook) — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:32:48 +0000

I am selecting merged usr but still immediately red screen fail.

Re: [SOLVED] First (2024-04-13,) Excalibur amd64 netinstall iso, fails kernel panic

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:28:33 +0000

Yes, excalibur is testing, and there's some inconsistency with its packages so you'll have to not install packages. I.e., after selecting kernel and generic modules collection, then you
skip both the "configure package manager" and "select and install software" steps, and instead
continue with
"select an init system" followed by
"install the grub boot loader" and finally
"finish the installation"

Doing all that leads to a very basic intallation with "nano" as editor, and you need to manually set up /etc/apt/sources.list in order to start installaing packages with "apt-get".