> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 19:26:27 +0000
> From: KatolaZ<katolaz@???>
> To:dng@???
> Subject: [DNG] Migration to devuan Jessie failed on rpi-zero
> Message-ID:<20160207192627.GG23984@???>
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> Hi folks,
>
> I recently got one of those new raspberry pi zero. The little thing
> should have exactly the same hw of the first version of rpi. Hence, I
> thought I could have migrated it swiftly from raspbian (jessie) to
> devuan, and I was eager to post my report here.
>
> Unfortunately, my enthusiasm left room to frustration. To cut a long
> story short, apt-get dist-upgrade fails on unpacking bash_4.3, and in
> particular it seems that the pre-installation script is bein killed
> with SIGILL (Illegal Instruction). This seems to suggest that there
> might be something wrong in how the devuan armhf packages are
> compiled, or just an incompatibility due to rpi-zero. However, the
> "normal" raspbian jessie runs smoothly (apart from the fact that,
> notwistanding systemd, the boot still requires more than 90
> seconds...), hence it should be possible to have the correspoinding
> devuan packages working...
>
> Any ideas? I also thought at some point that I could have
> dist-upgraded directly from (debian) jessie to (devuan) ascii, but has
> any of you tried this before?
>
> HND
>
> KatolaZ

The original Pi is not fully armhf (ARM6 instruction set instead of
ARM7) and your choice is to use armel packages or compile armhf with
the arm6 flag.

http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/9912/how-do-i-tell-which-version-arm-cpu-on-my-pi

Nick