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Danielsan

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Registered: 2020-07-14

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Devun DVD Installer & Virtualbox UEFI, installaton issues.

Hi guys,

I am not sure this is a bug, however I can't install Devuan on Virtualbox in EUFI mode since it goes directly into the UEFI Shell; unfortunately this doesn't happen with the Debian DVD installer which starts properly.

Is there way to install Devuan with UEFI enabled? I need it to simulate a new install configuration, thanks!

D.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2019-03-24

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Re: Devun DVD Installer & Virtualbox UEFI, installaton issues.

I seem to remember that VB doesn't maintain NVRAM boot entries so try copying /boot/efi/EFI/devuan/grubx64.efi to /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi.

I might be wrong about the path to grubx64.efi so use this to check:

find /boot/efi -name grubx64.efi

Reference: https://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloade … ive-naming

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2021-12-01 17:46:21)

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rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

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Re: Devun DVD Installer & Virtualbox UEFI, installaton issues.

Have a look at https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=31475#p31475 and what follows ....

rolfie

Danielsan

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Re: Devun DVD Installer & Virtualbox UEFI, installaton issues.

Have a look at https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=31475#p31475 and what follows ....

rolfie

Thanks rolfie,

I got this is a problem of the ISO, I hope it will be fixed soon.

rolfie

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Re: Devun DVD Installer & Virtualbox UEFI, installaton issues.

Wouldn't be that optimistic. Devuan uses a different mode than Debian for efi boot, and that works fine on real HW. Just causes issues in VBox. Haven't got anything that the admins work on this topic.

The workaround described in my lengthy post works, just managed to install from the Daedalus preview.

rolfie

Danielsan

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Re: Devun DVD Installer & Virtualbox UEFI, installaton issues.

Wouldn't be that optimistic. [...]

I installed Debian + Refind, than I installed Devuan. Refind was able to detect the devuan (virtual) CD iso and starting it.

Last edited by Danielsan (2021-12-06 05:57:38)