Yes, exegnu is built from a (devuan-) bootstrap chroot and uses custom
scripts to convert for live image, not live-build. Those scripts have
evolved to now include quite a bit of the excellent Refracta code
base.

The box I do them on at the moment is a 64-bit intel core2 but an
older one. It can't boot any 64-bit images with qemu nor virtualbox. I
test them either with grub "loopback" or from a usb. They should also
boot on eufi machines but I can't test that either.

I started doing them when Trinity Desktop (the KDE3 fork) began. since
nobody else was. I didn't get on with kde4 when it arrived in Sid.
System resource usage of TDE is comparable to XFCE4 (which I also use,
but am increasingly concerned about gnome/gtk3 direction). TDE's
systemd requirements go no further than dbus, already sorted in
Devuan.

I switched from Wheezy to to Devuan at it's very beginning.

On 23 April 2016 at 23:57, fsmithred <fsmithred@???> wrote:
> On 04/23/2016 07:46 AM, fsmithred wrote:
>> On 04/23/2016 04:41 AM, Jaromil wrote:
>>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
>>>
>>>> BTW, there is a new devuan-based exegnulinux ISO with TDE:
>>> http://www.exegnulinux.net/
>>>
>>> just tested with qemu, it doesn't boots (error -28 on /bin/sh execution)
>>>
>>> I suspect they use Debian's live-cd scripts? that may be the problem
>>>
>>> we had to fork that too, Frits did
>>>
>>> https://git.devuan.org/devuan-packages/live-build
>>>
>>> (all welcome to contribute a README for this)
>>>
>>>
>>> ciao
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I can confirm that error on booting exegnu64_devuan_20150914.iso with
>> qemu. It will boot in virtualbox.
>>
>> AFAIK, exegnu is built from a debootstrap install and then converted to a
>> live cd using a script similar to refractasnapshot. (We share a lot of
>> code.) I don't know all the details on this build, but I know how to find out.
>>
>> -fsr
>>
>
>
> Refracta isos won't boot in qemu, either. I tried jessie-based isos back
> to December 2014, and they all failed, including one Debian Jessie with
> systemd. Wheezy-based isos worked properly.
>
> I rebooted into wheezy to try with an older qemu and had the same results.
> I'm surprised by that. I thought I used qemu with some of the early jessie
> isos I made.
>
> -fsr
>
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