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#1 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-21 18:57:42
Thanks Rolfie, I had forgotten that, now the machine boots in graphical mode without problems, I really appreciate the attention and I'm going to mark this post as solved.
Cheers...
juancho
#2 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-21 18:35:55
Good afternoon people.
First of all I want to thank Rolfie, Andre, Ralph, Stargate and Alex for all the help they have given me. With that help I have managed to get the machine to boot in text mode, in the boot messages it appears:
"ERROR amdgpu requires firmware installed"
This is something else that has never happened to me before, so I'm wondering if someone could tell me how to install the firmware from the terminal in text mode.
Cheers...
juancho.
#3 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-19 21:31:21
Thanks Ralph, I'll keep that in mind. I need to backup /home first, but Devuan live refuses, so I'll try some other live cd and report back as soon as possible.
Cheers...
juancho
#4 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-19 20:50:13
Thanks Rolfie, i will try an report.
Cheers...
juancho
#5 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-19 19:53:24
Can this be done without losing data in /home?
#6 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-19 19:47:44
I'm going to try it, will Gparted allow me to do it?
#7 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-19 19:35:43
This is what my partition table looks like according to Gparted.
https://i.postimg.cc/NfMwQzTZ/DSC00010.jpg
Should i put sda9 where sda1 is?
Cheers...
juancho
#8 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-19 17:29:59
Does 2T mean 2 terabytes?, the hard drive is only 1 terabyte.
Cheers...
juancho
#9 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-19 15:40:01
64 / 5.000
Thanks Stargate, the pendrive is put into a USB 2.0 connector.
Cheers...
juancho
#10 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-19 15:37:27
Indeed Rolfie, both flags are present on the fat32 partition.
In another post you say:
The first partition on the target drive should be the ESP, FAT32 formatted, I do recommend at least 512M, better 1024M. If you use manual partitioning, make sure its mounted to /boot/efi and used as ESP. Essential to successfully install grub.
In my installation the EFI partition is not the first one in the list but the fourth one.
Cheers...
juancho
#11 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-19 13:51:56
482 / 5.000
Thanks Rolfie, since I used Debian, I've always used the "expert install" and manual partitioning. Apparently the installer doesn't have an option to create an EFI directory inside the boot partition, in these last installations it has created an EFI partition where it found a FAT 32 partition that I previously made, using Gparted, since the system used the usual BIOS before, maybe that could be the problem?
heers
Cheers...
juancho
#12 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-18 23:28:53
I found out that when I resized the EFI partition I forgot to format it as FAT 32, that's why the installer was stuck on partitioning, that's fixed. Now the installer is stuck on <grub-install dummy> "This is a fatal error". If anyone has any idea what's going on, please let me know.
Cheers...
juancho
#13 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-18 21:33:39
Thanks Rolfie, I resized the FAT32 partition and now the installer crashes after defining the partitions, I'm going to try the rescue option and see what happens.
Cheers...
juancho
#14 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-18 20:25:22
... the problem only occurs when I want to boot from the hard drive ...
Maybe just firmware-amd-graphics is missing? Requires non-free-firmware in your sources.list.
Last edited by rolfie (Today 14:58:40)
Can the firmware be included from the Devuan installer?, I've never done anything like that, that's why I'm asking.
Cheers...
juancho
#15 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-18 19:45:41
Thanks Rolfie and Andre for your attention.
Rolfie, I just updated the BIOS with the latest available, from July of this year I think, the "secure boot" has never been enabled
since I started with this new BIOS (it is not clear to me for who the boot is more secure).
Andre, since I started using Debian, I have always used the "expert install", not that I think I am an expert or anything like that but I have always installed with the /home partition separated from the rest. To create a FAT32 partition and extend the swap partition I used GParted, a good foolproof program.
Rolfie, The FAT32 partition came out a bit "fat", 15Gb, so in the new installation I am going to reduce its size, I say new because it still does not work, the machine boots perfectly from the Live CD and from the pen drive, the problem only occurs when I want to boot from the hard drive. The swap partition is more or less the size of the RAM memory, I never use suspend or hibernate modes so that should work fine, I think.
Thanks for your advice guys, I'm still fighting...
juancho
#16 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-17 20:50:28
The motherboard is Biostar B450M, socket am4
The data shown in the bios screen are
compliancy: AMI UEFIx64 2.7
Project Code AB45N-M4S
Model Name B450MHP
Bios Version B45NS905.BSS
Build Date 09/05/2023
Total Memory 16384 MB (DDR4 2667)
XMP Profile 1 None
XMP Profile 2 None
The processor packaging says:
AMD Ryzen 3 3200G
With Radeon Vega 8 Graphics
4 Core, 4 Thread Processor
4 GHz Max Boost, 3.6 GHz Base
Any other information that would be useful, just ask
Cheers...
juancho
#17 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-17 20:07:46
Thanks Rolfie for your attention, when I choose the UEFI option to boot from the pendrive the screen goes black, the machine freezes indefinitely and does not respond to any key, you can only turn it off.
Cheers...
juancho
#18 Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-17 18:12:23
- juancho
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Good afternoon people.
I am a former Debian user, until the Lenny putsch happened and I decided to move to Devuan. Over the years, except for some small fights with Nvidia cards, Devuan has been very kind to me and I have lurked around this forum many times to find out the news. A week ago my AMD Sempron motherboard with new capacitors (wink) decided "no more", so I had to buy a new one with the new and powerful Ryzen 3 (sarcastic smile). This is my first motherboard that only boots with UEFI, so I had to add a fat32 partition to the hard drive. After several installations with the Desktop ISO I only managed to reach:
GRUB loading.
Welcome to GRUB!
error: file '/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found.
And the prompt:
grub rescue>
Having tried several solutions found on the network without result, I decided to install from Netinstall, which is faster and do the installation without including GRUB, since this machine only has Linux. After installing with success from the Netinstall ISO, without GRUB I got to:
GRUB loading.
Welcome to GRUB!
error: file '/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found.
And the prompt:
grub rescue>
It looks like an episode of "The Prisoner"
Looking from a Devuan Live, with which the machine starts and works fine, I have seen that there is no directory /grub/i386-pc/. Which would seem reasonable, given that this is a 64-bit machine. If anyone on the forum can help me with this mystery I will be infinitely grateful, in the last 20 years I have never been there for a whole week without a working computer and using a laptop with windows.
Best regards and thank you for your attention...
juancho
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