Hello. I attempted to install Devuan 6 on my main PC today. However, the installation failed multiple times. At this point, it isn't getting past the partitioning stage. I had Windows 11 up and running up till this point. Before installing, I tinkered with the BIOS a bit. I disabled and cleared the TPM chip and disabled the "Absolute" tracking system. I am not sure if these changes are relevant, but moving on to the installation... Each time I tried to install I was warned that the intel/sof/sof-tgl.ri firmware was missing. I ignored it as it seemed to be unrelated to the download. The first time through I didn't even manage to get past NW configuration. I had to try again with an Ethernet connection. 2nd time, the installation was almost fully complete, but encountered this:

Configuring shim-signed:amd64
Unable to configure GRUB
Executing 'update-grub' failed
This is a fatal error

After which the installer took me back to the main menu. I had the option to try installing the GRUB boot loader again, but it once again failed. I aborted the install and tried again, but when my PC restarted it took me to some kind of GRUB terminal. I restarted and went to BIOS this time. 'debian' was now above my installation USB in the boot order, but I booted from the installation media manually.

And that's where I'm at now. Partitioning fails every time I try to install. I tried switching the installation USB for a fresh one; no dice. This is the error I keep getting now:

The attempt to mount a file system with type ext4 in /dev/nvme0n1p2 at / failed.

Currently, nvme0n1p2 is a 989GB ext4 partition. So yeah, my computer is a bit unusable right now but at least I can boot from USBs. I could really use some help to fix this and properly install Devuan. I read somewhere that the issue could be that my ext4 partition is corrupted, but I don't know if that is the case for me.

Hello, today I am hoping to get some help with running VMs with Devuan 6 as the host machine. The guest machine is likely to vary a lot depending on the task but typically Linux-based. I was able to install Oracle VirtualBox and create a VM with Debian 13 as guest, but when I try running it I get this message:

VM Name: Debian

VT-x is being used by another hypervisor (VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE).
VirtualBox can't operate in VMX root mode. Please disable the KVM kernel extension, recompile your kernel and reboot (VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE).
Result Code:
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component:
ConsoleWrap
Interface:
IConsole {6ac83d89-6ee7-4e33-8ae6-b257b2e81be8}

How do I disable the KVM kernel extension & recompile? Looking for a permanent solution hopefully. Thanks!

Hello all. I am very new to Devuan so I don't really know the ropes when it comes to getting different apps & services running. That being said, I'm trying to figure out how to get a VPN to work (including the process of installing it). I tried Mullvad, but the install encounters an error because systemctl is being called (and Devuan is systemd-less).

I looked around this forum and saw a few posts about similar issues, but the fixes didn't work for me. At this point, I don't mind switching VPN providers and I would just like to know which ones are recommended for Devuan with minimal setup fuss? Thank you!