The officially official Devuan Forum!

You are not logged in.

#1 Re: ARM Builds » raspberry pi3 chimaera install "from scratch" » 2025-12-12 16:40:42

THX! I've installed nowadays excalibur:
- ~100 MB FAT16 partition with MBR type 0e W95 FAT16 (LBA), bootable flag (RPi3 firmware + files from official devuan arm64 netboot.tar.gz (non gtk) & grub.cfg in /boot/grub)
- from UEFI Shell "Boot From File" and select bootaa64.efi, in started debian-installer "Expert Install" ("Force GRUB installation to the EFI removable media path" option needed)
After installation we have default UEFI position "debian", some minor bugs (getty in inittab, lack of syslog) BUT it works! The only drawback device tree (config.txt) doesn't seem to work e.g. gpu_mem=16, dtoverlay=pi3-disable-bt etc. Customized kernel needed or something?

#2 Re: ARM Builds » raspberry pi3 chimaera install "from scratch" » 2022-09-27 14:48:29

Camtaf wrote:

Unzip it, then image write it to your card, (I use dd).

Yes, such a procedure works (i checked it before writing this post, specifically devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_arm64_rpi3.img.zip on pendrive) but such a system is already profiled in some sense. "from scratch" option as above is not available for this platform?

#3 ARM Builds » raspberry pi3 chimaera install "from scratch" » 2022-09-26 16:35:44

technic-figure
Replies: 7

Hello,

In the SD-card-images directory, i do not see a device-specific file for rpi3 while the mini.iso applied to the flash drive, does not run raspberry - USB Mass Storage Boot set but nothing happens, no vision on the hdmi connector. It is possible to install devuan on rpi3 this way?

Regards,
technic-figure

Board footer

Forum Software