Re: half-baked devuan installation - please help

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Oh, I forgot:

You'd need "non-free-firmware" "and "non-free" repositories and you have to instll amd64-firmware.

Nik

Anno domini 2023 Fri, 13 Oct 13:49:32 +0200
 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users scripsit:
> So I read through your last mail :)
>
> Anno domini 2023 Fri, 13 Oct 02:18:06 -0700
>  William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
> > Well, let's wait to see what you have to say after reading the rest of my
> > description. I cannot really login via ssh from another machine, if that's
> > what you mean, because I don't have another machine that I can use at
> > present. However, I can change my sources.list and upgrade to Excalibur like
> > that, if it is really necessary to test the theory.
> >
> > My gut instinct tells me that this is really a graphics issue; such as, a
> > problem with my graphics card not being up to the new installation image of
> > Devuan Daedalus. And if this is so, then it is unlikely that it will be
> > better prepared for the installation image for Excalibur. Am I right?
>
> No images for excalibur yet - I think.
>
> You could try to add this to the kernel parameters inside the grub.cfg - but it might be that you have to do it blind:
>  vga=792
>
> Other option (low chance of success): add an external monitor. I'm not sure if your bios let's you define it as primary, but you could try.
>
> Next option (might be needed anyway): BIOS-upgrade. IMO you need to boot the original SSD, make a bios upgrade. Last time I checked that only works from M$ for the AMD Ideapad.
>
> Another option (best chance of success): Install chimaera minimal (or whatever you have runnng right now), upgrade to daedalus (you might skip this), upgrade to excalibur. Be prepared that you loose X11 in the process, but that does not matter. Remove all packages that don't have an upgrade candidate:
> # apt install apt-show-versions
> # apt-show-versions |grep --invert-match uptodate
> It might be wise not to reboot while upgrading to excalibur before the excalibur kernel 6.5.xxx is installed.
>
> Nik
>
> >
> > Bill
> >
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