Ive successfully installed devuan this time around with a newly downloaded Daedalus iso. I used the guided installer, said yes to installing grub in the efi path and yes to booting devuan from nvram. I think i may have screwed those two options up last time causing a kernel panic, unsure.  I didnt need to load the nvme module or anything like that so the installer must have picked that up.

Edit: very happy now, Devuan has everything i need without having to install packages outside of the package manager like i was doing with artix linux/aur.

Just add "emerg" (without quotes) to the boot command line: this will make it interrupt its boot with a busybox shell in the Devuan boot preamble. You may there investigate which modules it has loaded, and even mount the target disk for hands-on. Or possibly even switch_root to the installed filesystem (I haven't tried this).

If you choose the "generic" option for initramfs modules, the required modules would likely be included but it might still be necessary to mention them in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules to make sure they are loaded (in case auto-detection doesn't work). Check in your artix linux which modules are need.

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