> > Using beowulf netinstaller (3.1.1), it starts with a blocking error:
> >

> > ~~~
> >     Loading Devuan beowulf installer in standard mode...

> >

> >     error: invalid sector size 0
> >     error: you need to load the kernel first.
> > ~~~

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Sun, 22 Aug 2021 10:15:26 +0200 - "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@???>:

[...]

> Just a guess: is secureboot enabled?

Thanks for your suggestion.
Secureboot was/is disabled.


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Sun, 22 Aug 2021 19:19:32 +1000 - Ralph Ronnquist
<ralph.ronnquist@???>:

> That error suggests that the partition holding the installer's kernel
> (off the ISO) is on a partition type that the efi boot program (also off
> the ISO) can't handle. E.g. extfat.
>
> Is the install ISO on actual DVD or on USB? If on a USB, how did you
> write it? I.e., is that USB a true copy of the ISO?

The netinstall iso was on a UBS; I have writed it using dd as suggested in
the Devuan documentation.

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Thanks to some investigation and the inspiration of your suggestions, I
realized that the problem could be due to some lock on the disk. And then
the first hypothesis was that this could be tied to the presence of W10 on
the machine. Indeed W10 had a hanging attempt hanging, and this created
the lock on the disc.

After restarting W10 and made a clean shutdown, I restarted with the
Beowulf 3.1.1 netinstall ISO (USB), and the installation went ahead
without further problems.

During the partitioning phase, I left unaltered the partitions created by
the Windows Installer, and I created in the unused space a new root
partition, a separate home partition and the swap partition.

Finally, the laptop has devuan again and turns off and restarts without
problems.

Thanks again.

Regards
al3xu5

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