Dio: Holy Diver

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What is your graphics hardware?

Exe GNU/Linux doesn't include any non-free firmware but AMD, NVIDIA and recent Intel graphics cards require that to work properly.

And did you verify the md5sums after downloading the image?

You can check for a bad USB stick by copying the image back to a file:

# cp /dev/sdX check.img ; sync

And then compare the checksums again.

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=15566#p15566

Challenge accepted!

Devuan beowulf booting with systemd as PID1:

Unfortunately though I can't get any input devices to load for X so it's console only (the same situation occurs if I boot with sysvinit in Debian buster).

I had to install a version of eudev without the postrm & prerm install scripts and remove the eulogind package in a chroot (from Alpine Linux) and a few other corrective measures.

Don't worry folks, it was all done in a btrfs snapshot — I still have my original, fully functional beowulf system

First create a BIOS boot partition on your main disk: I like to use gdisk and add a new partition of type "EF02" in sectors 34-2047 (these should be free in a correctly aligned disk), do not format the partition.

Then install the grub-pc-bin package and run

# grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sdX

Replace X with the letter assigned to your main drive.

Finally reboot and make sure that CSM or "Legacy" mode is enabled in your firmware ("BIOS") options, this will emulate a non-UEFI system and should allow memtester86+ to work.

If your firmware is crap (most are) then you will probably be using the fallback UEFI loader located on the EFI system partition at /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI

See https://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloade … iples.html & https://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloade … ive-naming for more on this.

mkdir -p ~/builds/dcaenc
cd ~/builds/dcaenc
wget http://aepatrakov.narod.ru/olderfiles/1/dcaenc-2.tar.gz
tar xf dcaenc-2.tar.gz && cd dcaenc-2
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

It was pretty simple to package it up for Debian/Devuan so here it is:

https://software.opensuse.org//download … age=dcaenc

Disclaimer: untested so let me know if it works

It was possible to switch from sysvinit to systemd as PID1 in wheezy but sysvinit was the default.

Quilt rocks!

Patched the Makefile to rename the binary to /bin/loksh and added loksh to the ksh alternative system.

The package no longer conflicts with ksh93 and can be safely co-installed

New version is 6.4-1.1:

https://software.opensuse.org//download … kage=loksh

To set it as the default shell use either

chsh -s /bin/loksh

Or use /bin/ksh instead and also run

update-alternatives --set ksh /bin/loksh

to set loksh as the /bin/ksh alternative.

I'm curious: does the "Time and Date" configuration work?

Menu → System → Time and Date

Reference: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2770

^ Oops! Thanks for the correction.

@OP: sorry for the misinformation.

^ I think you should use this image rather than the i386 version, for the reasons I have already listed.

Sounds like that may be a power supply problem, is there anything in the logs?

You can test the RAM with memtester.

Some ISO images have memtest86+ as a boot option (if started in non-UEFI mode).

Although a GUID partition table includes a "fake" MBR it is not large enough to hold GRUB's core.img (which is stored in the MBR gap in msdos partition tables) and so a BIOS boot partition is needed.

ISO images use the El-Torrito "hybrid" configuration to accommodate both UEFI and non-UEFI booting:

https://wiki.osdev.org/El-Torito#Hybrid … _USB_stick

This thread is about a full system installation to a USB stick rather than ISO images.

Is there an option to select the boot device?

On my ThinkPad X201 I get a boot menu if I press F12 during startup.