I've had intermittent trouble with Devuan/EFI from day 1, when I got a new MB/SSD and found out I had to use EFI for my hardware to work. Most recent was a bad grub update (you may recall that was a topic of conversation here a few months back. Latest (yesterday) was my MB battery dying, and having to replace that! I could not boot, no matter what settings I picked (the no legacy boot thing seems a little different in my most recent bios, but pretty sure I turned it off.) Solution: I booted with a refind thumb drive, and followed the instructions here: https://wiki.debian.org/GrubEFIReinstall which may be all you need to do to get your system booting. I found when I booted that /boot/efi was not mounted, even though it was in my fstab. I mounted it when the instructions called for it, and everything else worked smoothly. I was able to boot without my thumb drive, just now! Perhaps this will help. I used refind version 0.13.1 (downloaded in Feb, when I had trouble with the grub update). After this, updates to Devuan work fine, and the boot loader works normally.
--Tim On Tuesday, May 25, 2021, 10:54:58 AM EDT, o1bigtenor via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 9:56 PM Patrick Bartek <nemomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 24 May 2021 20:46:06 -0500 > o1bigtenor via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 4:51 PM o1bigtenor <o1bigte...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > Greetings > > > > > > Tried a migration from Debian Buster to Beowulf - - - nope. > > > Downloaded the DVD and got almost all the way through the install. > > > Got stuck when the install demands a place to install grub and this > > > is an EFI setup. > > > > > > > Thought I'd check things. > > You bet - - - - had it on legacy boot not efi boot. > > Changed that and did another install. > > At the boot after install - - - oops - - - no joy. > > > > Complaints of no run init: can't execute /sbin/init: no such file or > > directory. > > > > Now this I have no ideas on how to fix - - - - please advise. > > > > (This is using the devuan dvd to install from. If this doesn't work > > - - - - well - - - I'm now out of my depth!) > > For my clean install of Beowulf, I had to use Expert Mode to get the > EFI boot choice. Having Legacy Mode on or off in BIOS made no > difference. Have now gone through a complete install twice using 'Expert Mode'. > > You also need a dedicated EFI partition (type ef00, EFI System type) > formatted FAT32 mounted on /boot/efi which should show in the installer > partitioner tool. You don't need a dedicated /boot partition. The boot > folder under / is sufficient. Have an EFI partition (FAT32 IIRC) on the HDD. Said no for installing GRUB to some independent partition. > > Thoroughly study the install instructions, especially about setting up > efi. I can find nothing for setting up efi on Devuan on any of the official pages. If you know of such if you would please advise. (I know devuan works, a buddy, now deceased a year, was a huge fan, likely also involved in some maintenance - - - - just how do I get this server testing system running Beowulf. Four installs now and still no joy. Have now done 4 installs and would like advice before I start #5. Doing the same thing over and over hoping results will change is not my idea of 'joy'.) TIA _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
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