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ovi

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Registered: 2026-03-29

Posts: 10  

devuan_excalibur_6.1.1_amd64_netinstall.iso doesn't boot

Hello,

I wanted to switch my daily driver from a minipc (Lenovo) to a standard desktop with these specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 8400F 6-Core Processor

• GPU: Sapphire Lexa PRO [Radeon RX 550]

• MB: Gigabyte B650 EAGLE

I created the USB stick with Balena Etcher and booted. I selected Devuan stick boot from the boot menu and then the PC froze having the Gigabyte logo screen.
I tried then to create the USB stick with the dd tool, same thing.

I tested Freia and it booted, the installer started, all fine. I know that I tested the Excalibur installation on the same PC  a month or so, ago. It was a different iso back then. And it worked.

I tested the Excalibur boot on the Lenovo minipc and it worked, but on my Gigabyte desktop it just doesn't boot.
I have installed Debian 13 Trixie, for the moment, dual booting with Windows 11 LTSC. I hope to have a solution to get back to Devuan .

rbit

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Registered: 2018-06-12

Posts: 119  

Re: devuan_excalibur_6.1.1_amd64_netinstall.iso doesn't boot

Try the netinstall from https://files.devuan.org/user/tempforever/ - It uses the grub bootloader for efi instead of syslinux, which sometimes has problems.  (Grub sometimes has its own problems too)

ovi

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Registered: 2026-03-29

Posts: 10  

Re: devuan_excalibur_6.1.1_amd64_netinstall.iso doesn't boot

The iso provided works. Back on Devuan .
Thank you !