Re: [DNG] EFI Installation of Beowulf?

2021-02-25 Thread Justin The Cynical
On 2/24/21 6:10 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Why not create a hard link between EFI/debian and EFI/devuan ? EFI filesystems are formatted at FAT32, which, of course, doesn't support links of any kind. I will admit freely that I did try, got the error, then realized/remembered why it didn't work.

Re: [DNG] EFI Installation of Beowulf?

2021-02-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:42:22 -0800 Justin The Cynical wrote: > > the line "Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported..." > > I ran into this upgrading one of my EFI machines to the latest > bewolf, it would only boot to the grub prompt. > > I can't remember the exact steps I did to

Re: [DNG] EFI Installation of Beowulf? [solved]

2021-02-24 Thread Ralph Ronnquist via Dng
On 24/02 22:39, Jonathan Moebius wrote: > Dear all, > > the issue is solved. > > During research for Ralphs questions I realized my UEFI/BIOS was severly out > of date (I had thought this would have been done during refurbishing of the > device). After updating from a 2016 UEFI to one from

Re: [DNG] EFI Installation of Beowulf? [solved]

2021-02-24 Thread Jonathan Moebius
Dear all, the issue is solved. During research for Ralphs questions I realized my UEFI/BIOS was severly out of date (I had thought this would have been done during refurbishing of the device). After updating from a 2016 UEFI to one from 2020 (many thanks to HP for still supporting such a

Re: [DNG] EFI Installation of Beowulf?

2021-02-24 Thread Jonathan Moebius
Hi Andreas, On Wednesday 24 February 2021 21:06:07 you wrote: > I assume you tried another grub install when booted through debian's grub > into devuan? You might want to use "grub-install --recheck" I just did, it reported "no errors reported". > However, I'm a bit afraid of having multiple

Re: [DNG] EFI Installation of Beowulf?

2021-02-24 Thread Jonathan Moebius
Hi Andreas, thanks for your mail. On Tuesday 23 February 2021 18:26:31 you wrote: > > the plan was a dual boot install with Win10 being installed first, > > however after several failed attempts, I scraped Win10 and went for a > > Linux-only install. > > What does "failed attempts" mean here?

Re: [DNG] EFI Installation of Beowulf?

2021-02-24 Thread Jonathan Moebius
Hi Ralph, thanks for your mail, here are your answers > 1. which iso (with sha256sum)? I tried both the beowulf 3.0.0 and 3.1.0 netinst images. While I deleted 3.0.0, the sha256 of 3.1.0 is 1a6d240e66f4ed8db370fa53de516dfea89a1b466ebb5cdd8572abe024b6778c

Re: [DNG] EFI Installation of Beowulf?

2021-02-24 Thread Justin The Cynical
On 2/22/21 2:25 PM, Jonathan Moebius wrote: Installation seems to run smoothly but after reboot grub presents itself without the "graphical" selection menu but instead delivers the line "Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported..." I ran into this upgrading one of my EFI machines to the

Re: [DNG] EFI Installation of Beowulf?

2021-02-23 Thread Andreas Messer
Hi Jonathan, On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 11:25:14PM +0100, Jonathan Moebius wrote: > I have switched to a new computer and tried to install Beowulf 3.1.0 in a > pure-EFI setting. > I have tried installing on a SATA SSD as well as a a m.2 PCIe SSD. > Originally, I can confirm, that I'm running

Re: [DNG] EFI Installation of Beowulf?

2021-02-23 Thread Ralph Ronnquist via Dng
Please give some more details, specifically: 1. which iso (with sha256sum)? 2. was it a cleared disk, or existing paritions? 3. which installation mode (default or expert)? 4. which partitioning? 5. which network mirror (or none?)? 6. which software selection(s)? 7. which init system? 8. # md5sum

[DNG] EFI Installation of Beowulf?

2021-02-22 Thread Jonathan Moebius
Dear all, I have switched to a new computer and tried to install Beowulf 3.1.0 in a pure-EFI setting. I have tried installing on a SATA SSD as well as a a m.2 PCIe SSD. Originally, the plan was a dual boot install with Win10 being installed first, however after several failed attempts, I