Also got a PCIe card with a Renesas 720201 installed. Used the same tools and failed:

05:00.0 USB controller: Renesas Technology Corp. uPD720201 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 03)

Copied the files to /lib/firmware/renesas. I got:

/lib/firmware/renesas# ./upd72020x-load -r -b 05 -d 00 -f 0 -s -o 720201.org
Doing the reading
bus = 5 
dev = 0 
fct = 0 
fname = (null) 
ERROR: wrong vendorid/devid. Expected an UPD720201 or UPD720202 chip and this is not one!
       reported vendorid/devid: 1912:0014 
 ======> FAILED

I would claim the program finds the chip, but maybe still has the old NEC vendor ID coded? I tried to understand the .c file, buit couldn't find any reference to the expected/accepted vendor IDs. 1912:0014 is the correct ID for a 72020x device according https://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/1912/0014.

Program too old?

rolfie

@Andre4freedom: I need the hybrid CSM mode with UEFI first to be able to boot the parallel Win7 installation I still need for a few things. When I have more time I should loook into copying the Win7-SSD to a VM. 

@HOAS: I never use Secure Boot. For me all the culprits related to this do not matter. I am happily using EFI mode w/o SB. This allows to use modified efi entries like devuan3/devuan4 for my installations.

The PC is operating now with Beowulf and Chimaera on the new nvme plus the old Win7.

Strange was these locale issues, never had them before.

rolfie

I am sorry, don't seem to find this button on my screen(s).

Being logged in, I call up one of my original posts (I assume the option is only available for the OP). No sign of a "Mark solved" link. I can find "post reply", Preview, all the bulletin tags, but no mark. Would be for sure nice to have .....

I am using Firefox ESR, latest update. UBlock Origin and Noscript are active. What are the boundary condition to get this link? Where exactly should it be?

rolfie

Edith: same with Palemoon, just tried it.

The button is called "Edit".

rolfie

Update to todays status

Got the Beowulf 3.0.0 based Chimaera installation on P(artition)4/P5 on the new NMVe working fine with openrc as init and Cinnamon as desktop. I created a devuan4 entry in the efi flash which is used to start this installation.

Went on trying to revive the Beowulf 3.1.0 based installation on P2/P3 of the NVMe. There I am stuck.

I did a new install overwriting the last one. Used runit as init system, the rest being as before, i.e. efi expert install to cli, encrypted LVM with unencrypted boot. First thing that stuck my eye: the installation did not get stuck on the grub prompt but booted fine, the grub splash was shown immediately, I could enter the encryption key and log in as root.

The CD was still enabled in the sources.list, locale at C.UTF-8. Fixed the sources.list as first action. In the efi I found a debian entry holding a grub.cfg, and a devuan entry holding all the usual files including the shimx64.efi. Removed grub-efi-amd64-signed and did a new grub-install --bootloader-id=devuan3 --no-uefi-secure-boot. A new entry devuan3 was generated and points to grubx64.efi as expected. Removed the debian and devuan entries on the file system and cleaned the efi flash with the efibootmgr -b 000x -B.

The modifed setup boots up to the command prompt. Against my expectation, I still have the locale issue, and the efivarfs is not mounted. efibootmgr tells me that this system does not support efi variables. Well, mounted the efivarfs to the usual directory and can read the variables now. efibootmgr points to the correct entry, devuan3 still is present.

Is it possible that runit does forget to mount efivarfs?

rolfie

You may give the latest BIOS a try, good luck with that, I hope it helps. In my case it did not do anything.

When I look at what you posted, the dump-type stuff does not belong there. That may be some data written by the linux kernel into EFI flash.

Good luck, rolfie

CD1 is called devuan_beowulf_3.1.0_amd64-server.iso

Started off with sysvinit under ASCII some years ago, then experimented with openrc in VBox and finally installed an AMD470/Ryzen 2700X with openrc / ASCII. Motivation: refer to HOAS comment in the previous post.

Meanwhile all my active PCs at home have moved to openrc/Beowulf. With my kind of operation (office and internet, a nfs fileserver in the background) I have no issues found.

Currently I am investigating runit/Chimaera in VBox.

I can only encourage you to try openrc.

rolfie

Should also work and provide automatic kernel updates.

What happens on

apt full-upgrade

?

Actually your post is off topic, you would have better written a new post.

Read https://www.devuan.org/os/packages

rolfie