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kapqa

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Registered: 2019-01-02

Posts: 687  

excalibur image pine a64+ - no boot loader installed

Hello ,

attempted to install this image here for Pine A64+

https://devuan.bio.lmu.de/devuan/dists/ … rd-images/

after installing the error message :

No boot loader installed

No boot loader has been installed, either because you chose not to or because your specific architetcure doesn't support a boot loader yet.

You will need to boot manually with the /vmlinuz kernel on partittion /dev/mmcblk0p3 and root=/dev/mmcblk0p5 passed as a kernel argument.

could someone please tell what the correct course of action in such a case would be?
do i need to manually install grub?

thank you.

Last edited by kapqa (2026-06-11 15:30:52)

wert

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Registered: 2025-10-30

Posts: 14  

Re: excalibur image pine a64+ - no boot loader installed

hi,

Pine A64+: Neither UEFI nor BIOS but devicetree based?
Have a try to install pine official boot loaders.(U-boot?)

U-boot accepts grub as payload?

ask/look at Pine doc or forum.

Last edited by wert (Today 14:42:54)

kapqa

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Registered: 2019-01-02

Posts: 687  

Re: excalibur image pine a64+ - no boot loader installed

thanks for your reply,

dont know why but the older image chimaera or similar older
got installed and proceeded to update from there,

posted sometime at pine forum , but thought this more devuan related, glad it could function, it is very minimal image.
(but have switched since to armbian pmce more)