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#51 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] No boot device. Press any key to reboot machine » 2023-08-25 12:57:01
One note concerning OS booting:
when you had a Windows on the system before installing linux, chances are high in your UEFI settings the "Secure Boot" option is enabled.
I suggest to disable Secure Boot. I only had the worst of all experiences with Secure Boot. (Thank you, Microsoft, grrmbllh!)
security boot disabled.
#52 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] No boot device. Press any key to reboot machine » 2023-08-25 12:01:14
I encountered that problem when installing Daedalus on a UEFI-type computer that also has another linux (Mint) on another partition.
The same message at the first boot after successful installation
I could solve it by booting to linux mint and doing the grub-install and update-grub things from mint. That still has the os-prober enabled.
Afterwards I could boot Daedalus.
I then corrected the update-grub file to allow the os-prober again. All is fine now.
I don’t have another OS .. Before that I had windows, but I cleaned all the partitions with it and then re-created 5 other partitions
I really seem to have a UFFI computer and given this factor, I installed devuan according to the instructions for UFFI
#53 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] No boot device. Press any key to reboot machine » 2023-08-25 11:48:35
It sounds like you installed the bootloader to the flash drive instead of the internal hard drive or didn't install the bootloader at all.
Boot the system with the flash drive plugged in. Open a terminal and as root (or with sudo) run fdisk -l to see which drive is which. I assume this system uses legacy bios boot. If it's uefi, we need to talk more before you do anything else.
Then you can run grub-install and update-grub. Assuming that fdisk tells you that /dev/sda is your internal hard drive, run the following.
grub-install /dev/sda update-grubChange sda to whatever is really your first hard drive if it's not showing drives in the right order. Sometimes booting from usb results in a mis-match between what grub sees and what the kernel sees.
Then you should be able to reboot and start the system without the flash drive.
As far as I remember, in gpared I created a 512 MB partition.
It was for the bootloader, as I understand it, that I created this section.
And yes, I did everything in uffi mode
Ps: I created a /dev/sda1 fat32 partition, 512 mb in size, with the boot, esp flag in /dev/sda (223 GB), i.e. not on a flash drive, but on a hard drive
#54 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] No boot device. Press any key to reboot machine » 2023-08-25 11:43:57
It is hard to guess the reason.
You need to write down the detail of the steps of installation.Maybe you did not install the iso in the pc/laptop, you chose to install the iso in the usb?
If you are using a desktop pc, maybe your pc button cell battery is out of power?
I downloaded the iso file and created a flash drive using the rufus program.
then I followed the instructions of the site devuan
https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … s/live-gui
#55 Installation » [SOLVED] No boot device. Press any key to reboot machine » 2023-08-25 11:10:15
- Charon795
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Hello everyone! I recently finished installing devuan linux and when I restart the system I get the following error: No boot device. Press any key to reboot machine.
I get this error when there is no flash drive
At what point in the installation did I make a mistake? Why does this error occur?
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