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#1 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Problem installing on an Acer Aspire 315-23 » 2021-04-13 15:25:40
Updates: I finally installed my loved devuan. As you suggested I had to modify the live-usb to boot,
but that wasn't enough I had to disable the secure boot.
Anyway now I have a fully functioning devuan system, hence the problem is solved.
Thanks to everyone for the help.
#2 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Problem installing on an Acer Aspire 315-23 » 2021-04-05 13:47:57
Sorry I missed this part of the post.
theIneff wrote:shouldn't grub be signed to boot up with secure boot?
It is. The Devuan installer uses the grub-efi-*-signed package for the UEFI bootloader. What actually happens when you try to boot the ISO? What do you see?
Basically the UEFI-system displays an (irony)informative message(/irony) "Secure Boot Fail" and an image showing a lock.
#3 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Problem installing on an Acer Aspire 315-23 » 2021-04-05 13:07:48
Thank you all for all you kind answers, I'll try to make a new live-iso with the backports modules,
hopefully this will solve the problem.
Fingers crossed I'll keep you updated!
#4 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Problem installing on an Acer Aspire 315-23 » 2021-04-05 13:05:07
What medium did you download and copy to USB ? What were the commands?
I downloaded the last iso from the devuan website.
About the commands used, as I said before I created the first usb-live with
dd if=beowulf.iso of=/dev/sdbwhile for the second one I used refracta2usb.
#5 Installation » [SOLVED] Problem installing on an Acer Aspire 315-23 » 2021-04-04 12:07:36
- theIneff
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Hello everyone.
I'm currently trying to install devuan beowulf 3.1.0 on an Acer Aspire 3 315-23.
I tried creating the live-usb both with the old school method (namely dd-ing the iso file on the usb drive)
and the cool kid-method (namely using refracta2usb to create the bootable live-usb).
Currently I'm facing the following problems.
Both the usb's don't boot up with secure boot, shouldn't grub be signed to boot up with secure boot? It seems strange
especially since ubuntu LTS live-usb seems to be able to boot with secure boot.
Nevertheless, disabling secure boot I'm able to boot up the system but the live doesn't start the X-server,
it seems it isn't able to load the graphic driver.
The laptop has a ryzen 3500U with an integrated radeon vega 8 as a graphic adaptor.
Please feel free to ask for any additional information.
Any help is much appreciated.
#6 Re: Other Issues » [Solved] Creation of usb-live via refracta2usb » 2018-09-15 13:57:25
Thanks, I really hate systemd and I hope to be helpful in this community. :-)
Congrats and welcome to Devuan and the forum!
#7 Re: Other Issues » [Solved] Creation of usb-live via refracta2usb » 2018-09-11 18:32:46
Ok, I found the solution.
I forgot to add to syslinux configuration the option
username=devuanto the kernel line.
Sorry for the trouble. Problem solved.
#8 Other Issues » [Solved] Creation of usb-live via refracta2usb » 2018-09-11 14:26:26
- theIneff
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Hi,
I would like to put a Devuan-ascii live on a usb pen drive to do fresh install and to have a live distro always there in case of emergency.
I tried to use refracta2usb tool to do the job, since I did not like the idea of wasting space on the pen drive by just using dd.
I partitioned the pen drive in two partition (one for the live installation and the other one for files) via gparted and used the default ISO1
installation of refracta2usb (with the live iso for devuan).
It seems the process worked half way, the bootloader works (it seems to be able to find the kernel and the initramdisk) but at boot it does not load the session.
In all the ttys I get the error message "Authentication error".
I am a little bit lost here in how to proceed to troubleshoot the error since the system does not provide me with a terminal to issue commands to get more log informations.
So how could I try to work around this problem? Even better is there any tutorial/guide/manual that shows how to burn a devuan-live iso via refracta2usb?(I have tried googling around but I did not find anything helpful).
Thanks in advance.
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