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