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jandrg

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Registered: 2025-12-11

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excalibur image for original rpi?

I have an old Raspberry Pi model B that I'd like to run excalibur on, but I notice that the arm builds at arm-files.devuan.org/RaspberryPi Latest Builds don't include excalibur builds for the original rpi.  Is there a reason for that?  I thought Debian and the kernel did still explicitly support the original Pi.

I could start with daedalus and upgrade of course (unless there's a reason it wouldn't work) but I figure it would be cleaner to just start with excalibur.

Thanks, thanks to everyone who works to make Devuan!  I also have it on ia32 (daedalus), ia64 amd64 (excalibur), and arm64 (old Samsung Chromebook Plus V1, soon to upgrade to excalibur) machines.

Last edited by jandrg (2025-12-12 12:24:13)

RedGreen925

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Registered: 2024-12-07

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Re: excalibur image for original rpi?

but I notice that the arm builds at arm-files.devuan.org/RaspberryPi Latest Builds don't include excalibur builds for the original rpi.

Those are not real builds anyways they are made with a script that creates images that are broken by default and do not allow the kernel to be upgraded like on a proper system. If you want to be able fully upgrade the system so that actually follows a normal Debian/Devuan process install then you need to install the Trixie using Debian images then convert it to Devuan like I did when I figured out the broken nature of them files.

bai4Iej2need

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Re: excalibur image for original rpi?

so what to do to get a real build ?
I need on for my rpi4, 4GB .

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broken by design :
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=958390

RedGreen925

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Re: excalibur image for original rpi?

so what to do to get a real build ?
I need on for my rpi4, 4GB .

Install the Debian Trixie image from their site, upgrading to latest packages as they are completely out of date. Then you follow the instructions to convert to Devuan from here.

https://raspi.debian.net/tested-images/
https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … libur.html

Last edited by RedGreen925 (2025-12-12 18:35:39)

jandrg

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Registered: 2025-12-11

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Re: excalibur image for original rpi?

Thanks for the tips on the non-upgradeable Devuan images and the tested Debian images, @RedGreen925 .  There are no tested Trixie images for the 1b so I had to start with Bookworm -- which worked fine for migrating to Daedalus, but my Pi wouldn't boot (blank screen, no blinking of the activity LED on the Pi) after upgrading to Excalibur.  Similarly, upgrading the Bookworm image to Trixie also resulted in no booting.  I've done enough upgrades and migrations on other De*an machines that I don't think I did anything wrong.

On a whim I tried the Excalibur "trial" image for rpi that got posted a couple weeks ago, and it booted fine.  So I'll have to decide whether to stick with that (and so never upgrade the kernel without a complete reflash to a newer image) or stick with Daedalus. 

I'm way overthinking this, I realize.

RedGreen925

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Registered: 2024-12-07

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Re: excalibur image for original rpi?

There are no tested Trixie images for the 1b so I had to start with Bookworm -- which worked fine for migrating to Daedalus, but my Pi wouldn't boot (blank screen, no blinking of the activity LED on the Pi) after upgrading to Excalibur.

Not much of clue on this one never used a 1b only my 4b  for my install. Only thing I can think of is no proper firmware installed in the upgrading. You can stick with that posted few weeks ago upgrade as long as you are comfortable with never upgrading the kernel as it failed every time I tried to do it with those images or the Daedalus conversion which should just upgrade fine on that branch. Which is why I went with the install Debian then convert to Devuan.

kapqa

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Registered: 2019-01-02

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Re: excalibur image for original rpi?

are you sure you wannaa run excalibur on it'?
happen to have one too,
and everything newer than wheezy seemed ultra -slow to me;

maybe you could find an other use for it?
mine sits idly at the moment, but with the (paid)(license) for mpeg2 .codec it still perform well for libreelec and tv channels,
or better yet,
  volumio, which found receently,  and like a lot. (needs no license at all).

jandrg

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Registered: 2025-12-11

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Re: excalibur image for original rpi?

This little pi is just a home media server, so even though it's slooow when used interactively like you say, it's done its server job fine running daedalus for a couple years (from one of the 'trial' arm images that I now know are broken).  I just like pushing these things to see how far they can go and so I wanted to try excalibur on it.  But I'll just stick with daedalus and be happy -- better to have a working system that'll be outdated in a couple years than a broken one.

Thanks everyone for your help on this.