[Nottingham] Installing Devuan

[Martin]

Further brief thought for the Devuan install:


Is the Grub install and Grub update both being run ok, and with a /boot
and no errors?...


Let us know how you get along!

As mentioned, you're welcome to join us on Thursday for debug ;-)


Cheers,
Martin



On 26/02/18 16:06, Martin via Nottingham wrote:
> Hi Stripes,
> 
> Good to see you on the list. Sorry for the curious install problem...
> 
> 
> A bit more diagnostic detail might help please?...
> 
> 
> One thought for the Devuan install:
> 
> Are you using a separate /boot partition that is formatted with
> something that Grub supports (such as ext2)?
> 
> Also, if this is for a newish UEFI system, have you got a VFAT EFI
> partition set up?...
> 
> And does the BIOS/UEFI know to boot from the SSD?
> 
> (Have you got the UEFI boot checks silliness disabled?)
> 
> ((And note that for some UEFI brokenness for boot-up, you may need to
> rename Linux to be called 'Microsoft' instead... :-( Wolves and sheep
> and chameleons and such silliness... ;-) ))
> 
> 
> You're welcome to join us this Thursday for diagnostics and stories...!?
> 
> Good luck,
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 23/02/18 16:47, stripes theotoky via Nottingham wrote:
>> When installing Devuan from USB it detects the SSD and installs but
>> throws errors when installing GRUB2. The system is installed but
>> unbootable. Attempting to install GRUB later gives input output errors.
>>
>> Install Ubuntu 17.04 to the same drive from CD works perfectly.
>>
>> Installing Devuan to replace Ubuntu gives a bootable Devuan that just
>> starts to boot and then goes into a kernel panic with a message about
>> kernel offset and off course hangs with flashing lights on the keyboard.
>>
>> Any ideas as to what is going wrong?
>>
>> Regards
>> Stripes
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Stripes Theotoky
>>
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