On 27-01-2022 11:06, Mike Tubby wrote:
Can anyone provide help with this one?
I have a Dell Wyse 3040 tiny PC intended for use a thin client running
"ThinOS" (Ubuntu 16.04 and custom desktop/thin client).
Others have reported success sunning desktop Linux distros "out of the
box":
https://roytanck.com/2020/05/13/running-linux-on-a-dell-wyse-3040-thin-client/
but I want to run Devuan 4.0 Server to run DNS and a few other light
weight infrastructure things on little box on a home network.
The Wyse 3040 is an Intel Atom quad core unit with 2Gb of DDR3, 16Gb
of eMMC flash, Gigabit Ethernet, 2 x DisplayPort, 4 x USB and audio.
I have set the BIOS back to defaults, booted from the server
installation on a USB stick made with Rufus 3.17 and performed the
installation, re-partitioned the eMMC flash, installed minimum
components and the installation has run to the end successfully and
for the "Now time to boot to your new installation".
When rebooting the machine it drops to a "No bootable devices" error.
Now these systems are EFI based and do not appear to have any legacy
drive support in BIOS.
I have run the installation a second time and paid more attention,
when it installs Grub it doesn't pop a menu asking where I want the
boot loader installed (MBR, first partition,) or providing a list of
'drives' or block devices to choose where to put the boot loader -
instead something flashes past about grub and EFI and it completes,
but after cycling the power the system isn't bootable.
Is there something incomplete/configurable/different that has to be
done on systems with eMMC/EFI to get them to boot?
Mike
IIRC there are two common problems. 1) On the EFI partition there is a
hard link to Debian directory which should be Devuan or reverse 2) The
BIOS is expecting a bootx32.efi whereas only a bootx64.efi has been
installed
You can check this with the tools from the link to GrubEFIReinstall from
Tim Wallace mail.
Grtz
Nick
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