The officially official Devuan Forum!

danista

Member

Registered: 2017-10-18

Posts: 40  

how to boot from netinst.iso?

I downloaded the new version but I can not start the computer from the installation disk devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_netinstall.iso

hevidevi

Member

Registered: 2021-09-17

Posts: 230  

Re: how to boot from netinst.iso?

how did you copy over the iso file to the disk and what medium did you use. By disk do you mean usb disk or compact disk (cd rom)? Usually you have to set the bios to boot from usb or cd, on mine i have to press F10 when the computer boots up to get to boot menu which lists what disks or medium boot from.

This is what i do to clear usb disk before i copy over the iso file to make sure there is no old gpt data or bios mbr data which could interfere with a successfull usb boot.
as root user..

# wipefs --all /dev/sdb
# sgdisk --zap /dev/sdb

then dd to usb disk.

# dd if=devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_netinstall.iso of=/dev/sdb oflag=sync status=progress bs=4M

Last edited by hevidevi (2021-10-17 11:45:03)

danista

Member

Registered: 2017-10-18

Posts: 40  

Re: how to boot from netinst.iso?

I copied the image using dd to an external USB disk .

Last edited by danista (2021-10-18 16:12:16)

hevidevi

Member

Registered: 2021-09-17

Posts: 230  

Re: how to boot from netinst.iso?

EFI directory at the root of your HDD  or the USB?

Last edited by hevidevi (2021-10-17 12:10:53)

rolfie

Member

Registered: 2017-11-25

Posts: 1,187  

Re: how to boot from netinst.iso?

Maybe this thread gives some hints: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=4496

rolfie