On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 01:40:39PM +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hello again, > > On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Haines Brown wrote: > > >The problem was more worked around than resolved. > > > >After having no grub modules with an installation on a new disk, whether > >DVD or netinst ISO, I knew the problem wasn't with the disk. I installed > >Devuan Jessie more or less successfully on a new disk without the old > >disk being connected. Then I reconnected the old disk and now can boot > >either operating system successfully. > > Sounds a lot like what I recommended on 4th June. :)
GRUB is working fine. I can boot either disk from either GRUB menu. Why I had to isolate the target disk in order to install Devuan remains a mystery, but it does not seem to have to do with GRUB, which is working. > >Incidentally, the key on which the ISO is installed names itself UEFI. I > >have both UEFI and legacy selected in BIOS. If I have just legacy, > >nothing boots. > > I'd have expected that you could select just legacy and then do a > clean install, although I don't think I've never cared which it uses. I had tried that, but failed. Forget the error, but it may have been the blinking cursor indicating that no operating system found. The usb key from which I install describes itself as UEFI, which may make it unusable unless I have both legacy and UEFI in BIOS. I just installed Devuan on another machine that already had a Debian (Etch?) disk on it. After installation I could not boot Devaun because of partition table error. However, testdisk says the partition structure is OK. I'm doing a "deeper search". As for my main Devuan install, I'm having trouble installing the xserver. But aptitude tells me xorg is not a real package. I'm moving from Debian Wheezy 32-bit to Debuan Jessie 64-bit, and perhaps I'm missing something. Is xorg still the way to install xserver? Haines _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
