I'm going to install devuan chimera on my PC (cpu intel I9,64 bit). Later I
want to debootstrap the correct version of devuan for arm-hf / armel. Can
you tell me if this command will work when I will be running devuan ?
thanks. I prefer to discover things by doing most of the time than by
reading from a lot of confused sources,if the topic is very technical.
Please understand me.

debootstrap --arch armhf chimaera /mnt http://deb.devuan.org/merged/
chimaera

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 4:45 PM o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor@???> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 9:15 AM Mario Marietto via Dng
> <dng@???> wrote:
> >
> > Hello.
> >
> > I would like to upgrade the kernel and I want to enable KVM on my old
> but still functional "Samsung Chromebook ARM model XE303C12 SNOW" because
> later I want to virtualize FreeBSD with qemu and kvm. I've started
> following this tutorial :
> >
> >
> > http://www.virtualopensystems.com/en/solutions/guides/kvm-on-chromebook/
> >
> >
> > As you can see,they used Ubuntu 13.04 as userland. No,I don't want to
> run such an old ubuntu version ! Actually my problem is that only 2 times
> over 10 tries my chromebook is able to boot correctly with the same setup.
> I've also completely erased the sd card with sudo dd if=/dev/zero
> of=/dev/mmcblk1 status=progress bs=2M but very rarely it wants to boot. I
> don't understand where the error is. When I insert the sd card into the
> slot it beeps and it prepares itself to boot chrome OS from the internal
> memory,not Linux from the sd card.
> >
> > The problem could be systemd that always tries to check and fix disk
> errors and it did not support natively chrome os disk partitions flags. So
> it may break those flags after the first boot. So,I thought of using devuan
> as userland. I don't know if it supports armel / armhf. I've found this
> site where there are listed all the ARM images available for Devuan.
> >
> I'm going to guess that you haven't toggled the bios to boot from
> something besides the existing.
> That's where you need to change things.
> Exactly what to change and the joys involved - - - - that's going to
> depend upon the specific
> model - - - which I know nothing about.
> Can tell you with Lenovo it was a royal pita getting it to boot from
> something other than the
> pre-installed M$ stuff - - - (not a chromebook - - a notebook - - -
> similar problem though!!).
>
> Chromebook can be quite tightly tied to Android - - - investigate that
> first.
> You may be sol for installing a different system.
> As its a Chromebook my first couple paragraphs may be useless drivel.
>
> HTH
>


--
Mario.