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bilhook

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

Have 3 computers, Intel Celeron N3350, same result.
I hit expert install, loads of invalid elf header comments, eventually goes to kernel panic, so I have to unplug the power.
I am sat at a table using this computer, and can boot another computer by its side, i.e., I can try something and post to forum simultaneously.
With a digital camera I can video the display|monitor if somebody wants some information.
I guess there isn't a cheatcode.
Can I change something in BIOS.

ralph.ronnquist

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

Yes, no further testing is needed; there appears to be a mismatch between kernel and modules for excalibur so it won't work. Thanks for trying.

bilhook

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

Second (2024-04-24,) testing fails.
Install the base system
Debootstrap Error
Couldn't find these debs:
usr-is-merged

console 4

debootstrap: /usr/sbin/debootstrap --components=* --debian-installer --resolve-deps --no-merged-usr --no-check-gpg excalibur /target file:///cdrom/

Looking forward to having a testing iso to learn with offline|online.
Is this post okay here in 'Installation.'
I am not a developer, I am a user, my knowledge is limited.
Can we attempt to install with Safe Slow Stupid cheatcode|s.
Please advise what hardware information pertinent, iso written to usb flash stick, my motherboard EFI Celeron M3350, mSATA SSD.

bilhook

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

P.s.
I do not understand why ralph.ronnquist is not on the Notable people list on wikipedia Battery_Point,_Tasmania

ralph.ronnquist

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

Run the installation until that red screen, then push contine until the expert install menu comes up showing that you are on "Install the base system".

Now, step down to the "Change debconf priority"; select that and select the suggested "low" priority, which returns you to the expert menu and the "Install the base system" step.

Select that will now give you the option of choosing "yes" for silly-links, and that will then allow the base system installation to complete. Pick kernel and modules, and then use "go back" until the expert install menu again...

.... then it's just to pick your init, install grub, finish installation, and reboot.

bilhook

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

Right now I am doing what you write, Change debconf priority, choosing yes for silly-links, fail, console 4, like I wrote above, except --no-merged-usr, gone, --no-check-gpg, remains.

bilhook

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

Guide

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

ralph.ronnquist

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

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".

bilhook

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

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

ralph.ronnquist

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

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.

bilhook

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

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.

bilhook

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

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

ralph.ronnquist

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

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.

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

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.

bilhook

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

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.

ralph.ronnquist

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

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

bilhook

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

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 .

bilhook

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

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

bilhook

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

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.

bilhook

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

dmesg shows tpm_crb Firmware Bug ACPI

Last edited by bilhook (2024-04-24 14:47:00)

bilhook

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

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.

bilhook

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

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