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Author: Fred
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] legacy boot Chimaera?
On 1/4/23 07:59, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 January 2023 at 14:42:07, Fred wrote:
>
>> I downloaded the netinstall iso and put it on the usb stick. I mounted
>> the stick and found it has the same type of files as before.
>>
>> Device     Boot Start    End Sectors  Size Id Type
>> /dev/sdb1  *        0 761855  761856  372M  0 Empty
>> /dev/sdb2        4040   5511    1472  736K ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

>>
>> These are on /dev/sdb2
>> /efi/bootbootia32.efi
>> /efi/boot/bootx64.efi
>
> I cannot agree with this. Where are you getting this netinstaller image from?
>
> I just did the following:
>
> # wget
> https://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/devuan/devuan_chimaera/installer-
> iso/devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_netinstall.iso
>
> # file devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_netinstall.iso
> devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_netinstall.iso: DOS/MBR boot sector ISO 9660 CD-
> ROM filesystem data 'Devuan 4.0' (bootable); partition 2 : ID=0xef, start-CHS
> (0x3ff,254,63), end-CHS (0x3ff,254,63), startsector 4040, 1472 sectors
>
> # mount -o loop devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_netinstall.iso /mnt
> mount: block device
> /var/lib/libvirt/iso/devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_netinstall.iso is write-
> protected, mounting read-only
>
> # ls -l /mnt
> total 680
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root   2048 Oct 12  2021 boot
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root   2048 Oct 12  2021 boot.cat
> lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root      1 Oct 12  2021 debian -> .
> lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root      1 Oct 12  2021 devuan -> .
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root   2048 Oct 12  2021 dists
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root   2048 Oct 12  2021 docs
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root  12288 Oct 12  2021 firmware
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 184032 Oct 12  2021 g2ldr
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root   8192 Oct 12  2021 g2ldr.mbr
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root  85515 Oct 12  2021 md5sum.txt
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root   2048 Oct 12  2021 pool
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root   8456 Oct 12  2021 README.html
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root   5434 Oct 12  2021 README.txt
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root  14498 Oct 12  2021 Release_notes_chimaera_4.0.0.md
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 364571 Oct 12  2021 setup.exe
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root    192 Oct 12  2021 win32-loader.ini

>
>
> Antony.
>

Hi Antony,
The iso file came from the Berkely mirror. The files you list are
actually on there. The confusion was caused by my mistake in looking at
the usb stick. On this computer usb automounts when plugged in. An ls
/media/usb0 shows two files under /efi/boot/. I dd'ed the .iso to
/dev/sdb which maybe is not correct?
/sbin/fdisk -l shows the stick now has sdb1 and sdb2. The automount
picks sdb2. If sdb1 is mounted instead the files you show are there.

So we are back to square 1. The usb stick should be a valid boot device
and the mini-pc doesn't like what it sees there. It does see the stick
because the led comes on and at times it blinks rapidly.

I don't know what else to do.
Best regards,
Fred