You need to dig a bit deeper into the path on your selected server. The Daedalus directory it self was created in 2021, below you should find up to date previews, the latest seems to be dated March 27th.

BTW: basic non-free stuff is already integrated, there are no separate isos as with Debian.

With a Ventoj multiboot stick never use automated install! You will need to use manual partitioning to have full control where the system goes. This works perfectly.

Could it be that grub searches for the theme on the encrypted system device? Check /etc/default/grub.

When this is the case you may need to move the theme files to the unencrypted /boot.

Daedalus: rsyslog 8.2302.0-1devuan1 reads

#!/bin/sh

if [ -d /run/systemd/system ] && [ -x /usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate.real ]; then
    /usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate.real "$@"
elif [ -x /etc/init.d/rsyslog ]; then
    invoke-rc.d rsyslog rotate > /dev/null
fi

This is not the Chimaera backports package!!!

Edith: And logrotate does seem to work on my laptop.

Obviously this is an efi installation. When you removed the SSD with Devuan and put in another device, the Devuan boot entry in the efi flash was removed when booting. That's why you can't directly boot into the previously working Devuan system. This seems to be a built-in efi functionality.

As a fix, boot the installer medium again, call up the rescue mode, chroot into the Devuan installation on the SSD, and re-install grub. You may also use a life system, chroot is a bit more complicated than with the installer.

Good luck.

After some more unsystematic fiddeling I compared the two /etc/network/interfaces files and found that in Daedalus the initial eth0 wired connection still was enabled. Wired at home was no problem. Guess what, after reboot I got into the hotel's network.

This post is from my laptopn running Daedalus via wifi.

Thanks for the suggestion, rolfie

Yes, initially only the main thing,

http://hotspot.nonius.hsia/Hotspot/index.php?

now on your suggestion I copied the complete entry from the cronicle (its quite long) and changed the IP that was used. Firefox opens the page, but instead of waiting for my entries and the Enter button, it tries to jump to the hotel's home page immediately. Very strange.

On the Back button I can stop FF to allow my entries, but it does not work.

BTW, I have Firefox ESR installed on both releases.

Welcome. Devuan also works fine in efi mode, you just have to get used to it and the slight differences in behaviour and tooling.

Well, I have my desktop running with Daedalus, lightdm & Cinnamon, up-to-date, openrc and amd64, traditional unencrypted /boot, a luks-encrypted container holding a LVM for / and /swap. Working fine, just tried it, no shutdown delays.

Update: also checked my laptop running Daedalus with similar setup: no problems with shutdown delays.

I looked into my update history. The last update of the cryptsetup-stuff was before Chrismas. Why do we suddenly have a problem?

Ok, another loop. You definitely use a 5600XT for display, not the built in graphics from the CPU? Its a NAVI1, but a later modification. For firmware support you may need to follow HoaS' suggestion.

Backports handling: if you want to install a package from backports, you explicitly must specify this as I showed in my example. Just enabling backports in the sources.list and an install won't pull anything from backports. Intentionally. Pinning makes sure ....

You did not downgrade, but also didn't upgrade. When you pull a package from backports leave backports enabled, or you may get a downgrade later. And you won't get fixes from backports.

Good luck ...

Still got a PC running on a Ryzen7 3700 and a 5500XT, stock Chimaera with backports kernel, my wife's desktop. No kernel parameters required, just firmware-amd-graphics. You should stick to Chimaera until Daedalus is becoming stable.

My desktop was upgraded to a 6700XT, that does not work fine on Chimaera, it need more recent mesa and other stuff. This is running Daedalus. No kernel params, again just firmware-amd-graphics.

New feature dripping down from Debian into testing/unstable = Daedalus & Ceres.