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#151 Re: Installation » Daedalus LXQT-only installs no wireless manager? » 2024-09-01 14:15:17
Do not expect that you will get an automatic installation and configuration of your wifi stuff. Linux is not like Windows.
If the required packages aren't part of the meta-package that installs the desktop, they are simply not there. You will have to add your choice manually.
#152 Re: Other Issues » Disappearing files » 2024-09-01 13:57:53
.... but the file was located on a partition that I formatted as ext3.
Maybe its related to the older version of the ext file system. Don't know how they do maintain the ext3 module it in the kernel. I would change that to ext4.
I am on ext4 since its available. I don't see any reason not to switch.
#153 Re: Installation » how to install the application center on Devuan Daedalus » 2024-09-01 11:36:31
What is that? Which desktop do you use?
#154 Re: Off-topic » How are you guys quoting posts? » 2024-08-28 17:05:38
I don't see the option to do so anywhere anymore. Or has my eyesight really gotten that bad?
1.) There is the quote button in the list of available commands above the Reply Window.
2.) Read this post: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=6369
#155 Re: Installation » is the Devuan repository server usually slow or offline? » 2024-08-23 20:59:55
Happened to me recently here in Germany too, was ok again some minutes later. Repo deb.devuan.org.
#156 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how to install kernel 6.6.47 (or 6.10.6) in a new daedalus install » 2024-08-22 12:11:49
@alexkemp: kernel updates are handled by the (meta)-package linux-image-amd64.
When this package is installed from the main branch, you will automagically receive the main line kernel updates. When this package is installed from the bpo branch (apt -t daedalus-backports install linux-image-amd64), you will get the bpo kernel updates.
Security updates are a separate story.
When you only install a dedicated kernel image from bpo, you won't get updates.
#157 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-21 19:13:48
You are welcome.
#158 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-21 18:37:31
Refer to posts #10 and #12 in this thread.
#159 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-19 20:46:43
No. Writing a new partitioning scheme will delete all partitions on the drive. If you have data on /home make sure you have a backup that you can play back.
#160 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-19 19:49:45
Sure, select Device in the gparted menu.
#161 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-19 19:41:47
No, redo your partitioning completely.
You are using oldfashioned MBR legacy partitioning. That is causing problems. Start with creating a GPT partition table.
Then create the ESP, and then the other stuff as you like.
#162 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-19 18:30:20
1T is small enough normally. Nevertheless I would recommend to use gparted to start from scratch. GPT partitioning scheme, and create the ESP as P1 with 1024M, FAT32, boot and esp flag set only for this partition.
#163 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-19 17:06:40
Apparently the installer doesn't have an option to create an EFI directory inside the boot partition, in these last installations it has created an EFI partition where it found a FAT 32 partition that I previously made, using Gparted, since the system used the usual BIOS before, maybe that could be the problem?
Such an option isn't there with reason. The ESP has to be a FAT32 partition on its own and will be mounted to /boot/efi. And per default it is never formatted or overwritten to save previous boot loaders for other OSes on the disk (multiboot).
In my installation the EFI partition is not the first one in the list but the fourth one.
How far out is that? Outside the 2T border?
#164 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-19 15:23:15
Does the FAT32 partition have the boot and esp flags assigned in gparted?
#165 Re: Installation » Daedalus: efi boot partition does not boot on an optiplex 3040. » 2024-08-19 11:16:17
I flashed devuan along with formatting the partitition scheme as MBR.
Memory stick or hard drive on your Optiplex? You should use GPT on the target drive for an efi installation.
The first partition on the target drive should be the ESP, FAT32 formatted, I do recommend at least 512M, better 1024M. If you use manual partitioning, make sure its mounted to /boot/efi and used as ESP. Essential to successfully install grub.
#166 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-19 11:07:34
You are using expert install and manual partitioning, if I am not mistaken.
When the installer fails during grub-install dummy then maybe the ESP isn't mounted where it is expected to be present? It has to be mounted to /boot/efi and used as Efi System Partition or ESP.
#167 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-18 21:08:13
Sort of:
* Boot your installation stick in efi mode.
* Select the Rescue Mode. You will get asked some basic questions about language, keyboard, network like during installation. Make sure you give similar answers. You will need internet access.
* The Rescue Mode should be able to detect the existing installation, and offer amongst other options a chroot into the installed system. Select that option.
* Edit the /etc/apt/sources.list to read something similar like: deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ daedalus main contrib non-free non-free-firmware.
* Run an apt update.
* Then run an apt install firmware-amd-graphics.
This should be it. Leave the installer and let the system reboot. I hope that fixes the black screen.
#168 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-18 19:58:05
... the problem only occurs when I want to boot from the hard drive ...
Maybe just firmware-amd-graphics is missing? Requires non-free-firmware in your sources.list.
#169 Re: Installation » Daedalus: efi boot partition does not boot on an optiplex 3040. » 2024-08-18 19:24:32
Welcome to Devuan.
I was flashing Devuan daedalus with Rufus on a Sandisk cruzer.
Maybe that is part of the problem. I have used Rufus myself many years ago, nowadays I use Linux tools like dd or cp. Lets see if we can find the root cause.
I created the necessary partitions and followed the instructions.
Please tell us how you have setup your partitioning?
When I came to the boot menu, there wasn't a new boot entry, but from what I understood devuan should have created a boot entry on the EFI menu.
Yes that is done during executing grub-install on the end of the installation. If you don't skip that step. And only if you have started the installation in efi mode.
I went to the BIOS setup and added a new boot entry manually. I selected hd(1,5) and I set the file location to:
/efi/devuan/bootx64
Well, the efi grub-install creates a directory /boot/efi/EFI/debian. And per default shimx64.efi is used as starter. But only if present.
I'm currently typing this in Windows.
Dual boot?
There is a thread where somebody else has issues with efi installation also. Please have a read, there is a lot of information in there that might help you too: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=6788
In any case, have you started the installation in efi mode?
#170 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-18 11:26:21
A few words to partitioning and file system:
Allow for GPT partitioning. Its the modern way and painless together with Uefi.
You will need an ESP, FAT formatted. 100MB is enough for normal operation. My personal recommendation is to use 512 or 1024MB because sometimes firmware updates want some space on the ESP and if that is just enough for the OS files firmware updates may fail.
If you want to use Suspend/Hibernate, allow for a swap partition that is about twice the size of your RAM.
And I recommend to use a separate /home partition.
To the boot stick: how was that generated? The method might be another trap if done by some Windows tool.
#171 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-18 08:28:56
Me myself never had such an experience. There shouldn't be any difference in graphics for the installer between legacy and efi mode.
Looking at mainboard and CPU, both are somewhat older and should be mature, i.e. any installation should be a nobrainer without difficulty.
Well, on the other hand, there is one newer bios available if I am not mistaken. I would load that in any case.
Then reset the bios to defaults, and switch off secure boot. Then give it another try, first of all boot a live cd in efi mode, then with the netinstall also booted in efi mode.
#172 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-17 20:27:11
Whats that? Is the latest bios installed on the mainboard?
Which Ryzen3 are we talking about? Which mainboard?
Maybe running inxi -Fz from the live iso could give us the required info.
#173 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-17 19:24:16
Yes, thats the typical symptoms of a legacy installation on an Uefi motherboard.
When you boot your installation stick, you will find the stick twice in the boot menu. Make sure you boot the one that is marked efi/uefi. Then select "Rescue mode" and follow that until you get a chroot into the system. There do a
# grub-install without further parameters.
That should fix the issue.
#174 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] AMD Installation, » 2024-08-17 07:30:43
I guess its due to the "bios" of this new machine. Have you ever worked with UEFI? I guess this Framework laptop is UEFI only.
To boot an USB stick you will need to call up a function called boot override. On my workstation its F8, on my travelling laptop its F12. Read the manual to find out how this works with your new toy.
#175 Re: Installation » Fresh Daedalus, residual app install issues » 2024-08-17 06:45:07
Thanks for the explain; so if I want to stay with nouveau then I shouldn't install it. Right now nouveau is driving my temporary nvidia card, I presume that when I change the AMD card nouveau will simply use its non-proprietary AMD driver?
You are thinking in Windows terms.
No, a parallel installation of the amd graphics firmware will not kill you nouveau stuff or interfere in any way. They are no "drivers" in Windows terms. They are just firmware that is required for a reasonable display.
And they are not used at all if the kernel does not detect an AMD graphics during boot.
What you could refer to as driver for the AMD card is already contained in the kernel itself. There are no separate files like for an nvidea card. And there is no split into free and proprietary drivers for AMD. The one thats build in works fine.
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