forums.debian.net is a fantastic forum, but it's a bit large, this forum is probably the best on earth.
Pity chewitt is not on it.
I don't know why fredsmith ain't inputted yet, I sincerely do hope very much indeed, to say the least, that he is in good health.
Ideally he is sat in a comfortable armchair, doing absolutely nothing, cept hitting a second bottle of single malt.
At the end of the day I'll get Ridley Scott to fix 20 lines of code . . .

If it wasn't for Roderick rEFInd's work at Ubuntu, we'd all be stuck in Windows and unable to boot Linux.
More hooks & backdoors than a bordello full of gilfs.

Mine,
/usr/lib/linux-image-6.1.0-28-arm64/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-khadas-vim.dtb

I'm Logout for 90 mins now.

I'm starting with a Khadas VIM1 pc, board been out 10 years.
I use vanilla Debian|Devuan installer, not bespoke u-boot particular installer iso.
I installed offline and chroot /target sysvinit & dependencies
I have u-boot bootable TF card & chainload rEFIind takes me to grub 'automatic.'
for sysvinit to work I have to add kernel boot console=ttyAML0 console=tty0
inittab T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyAML0 vt100
‘Activate’ RTC chip, generate hwclock.
touch /etc/init.d/hwclock0.sh
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/hwclock0.sh
#!/bin/sh
case “$1” in
start)
echo hym8563 0x51 > /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-1/new_device
;;
esac

https://forum.khadas.com/t/howto-not-to … os/23517/7

I have already done a Debian live-build, I could see that Refracta is built on this.
On an amd64 pc I am quite familiar with using refractasnapshot in Devuan, most pleasant indeed.
Unlike live-build, refractasnapshot don't need to be connected to network.
I started looking at documentation for live-build, but found it truly quite awful, even for Linux.
I am not being lazy posting here, just seeking some ideas.
Does a Debian arm64 installer iso boot syslinux?
I will determine.
I am grateful for your reply.