you can check your partitions with lsblk, blkid and cat fstab. line up the uuid's and edit /etc/fstab.

change the uuid from the new /home to your old one... and save it (you'll need root permissions to do most of this).

Before you reboot, rsync your new home to your old home to refresh any start scripts...

rsync -avh will only over-write with newer files, leaving the rest intact.

I did this just last week, and it works.

welcome to hawaii

Hi, look at your services for hwclock.sh will take your bios time and use it to convert to your locale.

I found that the bios time needed to be set UTC so the locale would represent the correct time here...

If you have no network connection it may remember the time from a setting during the OS installation.

I used to try and set the correct date & time in the bios, but every OS wants to change it, putting my file-access time forward and generally making a mess.

So, set the bios to UTC and let the locales and hwclock will make the adjustment for you.

btw, using Open-Rc, rc-update (as root) lists the services.
I hope this helps.

What's wrong with rsync -avh source destination (?)

wicd is not available with chimeara, but it is with beowulf (and ascii).

I think the other main change (for me) was su is changed to su -

Chimeara has Songwrite... and sysinit orphan startup scripts...

my 2 cents worth.

regards Glenn

this may not be useful, but

quite some time ago I tried usrmerge... and as I had began to think as well, But I thought I was imagining things...

Not just /usr merge of /bin and /sbin, other things are broken as well.

At one point I "ln -s" the directories instead of using usrmerge and the system seemed to work ok.

I didn't stick with it, but the experiment was wonder-full.

Something was broken, possible only revealed when compiling (making and installing) a kernel or software.

Hi.
I'm sending this message via my asus N550jv laptop, fully loaded with Trinity|Daedalus.

A recent bpo kernel

glenn@trinity:~$ uname -a
Linux trinity 6.6.13+bpo-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.6.13-1~bpo12+1 (2024-02-15) x86_64 GNU/Linux
glenn@trinity:~$

The keyboard and display brightness Fn keys work.

I had wicd working for a bit, but then it was removed.

I setup wifi on the command-line

wpa_passphrase {ssid} {password} > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

The wifi is working, but drops out a lot!

I finally got the keys to work with the config editor, once I figured out how to add US and AUS, I got rid of the Brittish keys and now # and | are where I'm used to using them.

@aluma Thanks for the tips. Got me out of the hole I was in. :-)

I looked into most of the other tips as well, and tried a few.

Once I partitioned with dos-mbr, I could boot and then after installing ascii, then upgrading to beowulf, and then chimeara, and then to daedalus...
a real pain,

but found that it was just one of those 6.1 kernels that was causing most of my problems, then

I had a runnaway kernel... dumping heaps of text to the screen that I could only switch the laptop off (power button still worked)...

then did a clean install of Daedalus/xfce4 and converted to trinity as instructed in a post here from @aluma.

That did the trick although the wifi was extremely faulty, I eventually made a list and installed most of the packages piece-by-piece, in small groups.

I have amarok installed and is playing music, confirming the sound system is running. (Firmware_intel_sound package in this case)

I'm really happy with this setup, I'm loving it.

Next I'll have a go at tethering the iPhone.

I have some pics of when I changed the battery a few weeks ago (this WIP has taken nearly a month) and I'll share those with you soon.

Thanks for all the help, it was invaluable.

Thank you very much for your time and considerations.

Kind regards, Glenn

I just got a copy of Hacking Exposed, Linux 3rd edition.

600 pages, I hope I learn more about securing my box. :-)

Hi, I'll look into that new kernel very soon for my main desktop box, running Daedalus plasma5.

I have just completed a new install on my laptop, asus n550jv... with Devuan ascii. With a new battery, and a clean ssd (dos-mbr partitioned, finally)

I did this because the newer kernel with Daedalus did not load my sound chipset and quite a few other things although the screen and keyboard dimming was working.

I've just checked the sound operation with a .mp3 playing through vlc and it sounds ok.

I've put it aside for now, I still have the network devices (wifi and tethering to the iPhone) to set up... some research will be required.

I'm very happy with the laptop at the moment, although I'm not used to the apps with xfce4... I'll look into it.

The day before yesterday I had trinity setup on the laptop, and it looked good, but too many chipset errors like, keyboard characters Getting pound instead of hash and others..., eth (nic) wifi and sound in particular. WIP! But the graphics card was used by default which was a nice change to see it was actually working (with nouveau)

I endeavour to slowly migrate back to the recent kernel versions and trinity desktop, but keeping an eye on the modules required for that set up.

I had found a faulty re-purposed flashdrive (rarely used, parrot-live) that was giving some serious looking errors and freezing the system on this desktop box, a new kernel and clean install may help to resolve those.

As well as that I binned the faulty flashdrive. I have to draw the line somewhere.

@oui: I'm glad to see you are making progress.

Hi, thank you for all the suggestions. Much appreciated.

Last night I repartitioned and setup a dos-mbr, and installed trinity to the 4 partitions I setup.

It's booting as normal now, thanks again.

The pc-linux live system has a whole bunch of tools, but I couldn't get any of them to fix the install of Devuan Daedalus plasma at that install attempt.

Still, it's good to know there are tools out there.

I was a bit stubborn about gpt over dos, and I noticed the Flags were a bit different.

Thanks again. Have a great weekend.

I tried the tools on a PcLinuxOs-Live yesterday, but still got similar errors.

I'm considering option 2. resetting the bios so as to install an msdos mbr with UEFI before I do anything else.

I'd had so much good fortune with my laptop.

One of the last things I did a few days ago was to remove the ssd from the laptop and do a clean install to it from this desktop box/machine

I'll have another crack at it over the weekend.

Thanks for your help and tips.

It replied, "no errors reported"

But the same error appears on reboot. insert proper disk

@rolfie: Thank you, I always boot in legacy bios mode where and when I can, to avoid the esp shims and signing.

I made up my mind a long time ago, and always use legacy boot. But my laptop is a slightly different scenario.

It just has to work.

I do know from experience that most of the iso have a similar installer function.

I might try the PcLinuxOs iso, just to see if that gets me out of this situation.

There is an upside to using the grub-super...iso, if the laptop gets lost it will be hard to use without the usb as a key..

Thank you fred.

I had this before and the bios gave the error above, this is why I am asking.

I just rebooted the laptop and it gives the same error. edit...

partmon gave a warning the the kernel would not be aware of the change until rebooted.

When selecting the bios (esc) it shows only the cdrom as a bootable device (no usb inserted).

I have that iso, exegnulinux... but even after several installs, I get the same bios error.

wip