On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 03:06:43PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 02:16:56PM -0700, Gregory Nowak via Dng wrote:
> > Got it. I tried options 5-7 so far with both down arrow, as well by
> > pressing number enter, and software speech comes up on all as
> > expected. I haven't yet had the chance to try option 8, or to try
> > doing a full install.
>
> I've tried options 5-8, and a full install with mate and xfce on
> VirtualBox, and a full install with mate on physical hardware. All
> works as expected, including braille display support.
Great, many thanks for that.
> > This change will need to be documented in either
> > a README file, or in the Daedalus release notes. Here's the text I
> > propose:
> >
> > The boot menu for the devuan Daedalus installer has changed from
> > previous versions. The new menu consists of eight choices, which can
> > be accessed by pressing down arrow, or by typing the number of the
> > desired option, and pressing enter on a system with legacy BIOS.
>
> I haven't been able to test how this works under UEFI in
> VirtualBox. Either the ISO doesn't boot under VirtualBox's UEFI
> implementation, or the procedure described above works differently in
> some way under UEFI than it does under legacy BIOS. If the above
> description works the same way under UEFI, then the text above could
> be appended to say "system with legacy BIOS and UEFI." If this works in
> a different way under UEFI, then someone with a UEFI system will need
> to describe the steps to get options 5-8 going on a UEFI system.
For me using Qemu with ovmf's TianoCore UEFI code, I cannot get it to
boot the ISO either as CDROM or as SD card removable, but it boots
with the ISO presented as SATA harddisk, or an NVME harddisk or
"usb-storage" USB stick, if the ISO file is made writable. (It seem
the UEFI boot includes writing an EFIVARS file on the EFI boot
partition, and fails by that unless the ISO is writable).
Those are the only different hardware setups I've trialled.
Possibly the UEFI code of virtualbox have the same issues.
It would be good if someone who have a proven CDROM boot on their UEFI
hardware could check the behaviour of the rc4 ISO.
Thanks, Greg. The rc5 (or maybe final) build will include the attached
BOOTHELP.txt file, which is a rendering of the text-only help texts of
the boot menu.
regards,
Ralph.
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F1 Devuan daedalus 5.0.0-rc5 installer built on 20230712
HELP PAGES
F1 - This page, the help index.
F2 - Prerequisites for installing Devuan.
F3 - Boot methods in this Devuan daedalus installer.
F4 - About rescue mode.
F5 - Special boot parameters, overview.
F6 - Special boot parameters for special machines.
F7 - Special boot parameters for selected disk controllers.
F8 - Special boot parameters for the install system.
F9 - How to get help.
F10 - Copyright and warranties.
ENTER - Return to the menu.
Your journey to init freedom has begun!
Press F1 to F10 for more help or ENTER to return to the menu.
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F2 Devuan daedalus 5.0.0-rc5 installer built on 20230712
PREREQUISITES
* This Devuan daedalus installer requires 800 MiB of RAM.
* The system must also have free disk space for the installation;
+ 2.0 GiB is possible without Desktop Environment (DE)
+ 8.0 GiB to have Xfce, Mate, Cinnamon and Gnome be installed together
+ 20.0 GiB is a comfortable size, catering for the future
+ 0.5 GiB for EFI boot partition (aka ESP), if needed
+ to support hibernation swap should be as large as RAM
* Note that all Devuan daedalus 5.0.0-rc5 installer ISO variants (netinstall,
server and desktop) use available network device to install from
Devuan daedalus mirrors when possible. All variants install the same
fully functional base system also without network. The variants then
differ by their included off-line package pool.
* Thank you for choosing Devuan daedalus 5.0.0-rc5.
* For more information, see the installation guide and other
documentation at the Devuan web site: https://www.devuan.org
Press F1 to F10 for more help or ENTER to return to the menu.
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F3 Devuan daedalus 5.0.0-rc5 installer built on 20230712
BOOT METHODS
1 Install - the default and easy installation mode.
2 Expert install - tediously considering all choices.
3 Rescue mode - run rescue shell with the installer kernel.
4 Automated install - hands-off mode installation.
5 Install with speech synthesis - easy install with screen reading.
6 Expert speech install - tediously considering all choices.
7 Rescue speech mode - run rescue shell with the installer kernel.
8 Automated speech install - hands-off mode installation.
H Help - about the installer; same as F1.
* Use the number or up/down keys to highlight the desired option,
and push ENTER to select it, or TAB to edit the boot parameters and
then commit with ENTER or abort the editing with ESCAPE.
Press F1 to F10 for more help or ENTER to return to the menu.
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F4 Devuan daedalus 5.0.0-rc5 installer built on 20230712
RESCUE MODE
* The Rescue mode option starts the installer but instead of
installing anything the installer will offer to run a command
shell, either within a chosen target filesystem or within the
installer itself,
* The setup procedure steps through a series of dialogs,
and thereafter it offers to run a rescue shell command line in
that virtual terminal 1 (vt1). The installer is a minimal
Devuan daedalus system that includes a small number of
utility commands for "rescuing" a broken system.
* The installer also offers vt2 and vt3 for installer command
shells while vt4 is dedicated for the /var/log/syslog progress
log. You shift focus between these virtual terminals with
Alt-F1, Alt-F2, Alt-F3 and Alt-F4 as usual.
* Note that you may trigger reboot and power-off from the command
line by the following commands:
for reboot: # echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger
for power-off: # echo o > /proc/sysrq-trigger
Press F1 to F10 for more help or ENTER to return to the menu.
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F5 Devuan daedalus 5.0.0-rc5 installer built on 20230712
SPECIAL BOOT PARAMETERS - OVERVIEW
* A system with special or unusual hardware may need additional
boot parameters in order to be usable by the installer, or in
some cases even for the installer to start.
* The following pages include a number of examples of different
such boot parameters:
F6 - boot parameters for special machines
F7 - boot parameters for various disk controllers
F8 - boot parameters understood by the install system
* Refer to the kernel documentation for details about boot parameters.
* Note that if the installer requires additional boot parameters then
most likely the installed system will require the same boot
parameters. For "grub" boot you would add these to /etc/default/grub.
Press F1 to F10 for more help or ENTER to return to the menu.
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F6 Devuan daedalus 5.0.0-rc5 installer built on 20230712
SPECIAL BOOT PARAMETERS - VARIOUS HARDWARE
* You can use the following boot parameters at the boot prompt.
Remember to use the 0x prefix for hexadecimal numbers (e.g., 0x300).
HARDWARE PARAMETER TO SPECIFY
IBM PS/1 or ValuePoint (IDE disk) hd=cylinders,heads,sectors
some IBM ThinkPads floppy.floppy=thinkpad
protect I/O port regions reserve=iobase,extent[,...]
laptops with screen display problems vga=771
use first serial port at 9600 baud console=ttyS0,9600n8
force use of generic IDE driver all_generic_ide=1
disable buggy APIC interrupt routing noapic nolapic
(partly) disable ACPI acpi=noirq
acpi=off
disable USB nousb
poll for interrupts irqpoll
* Example: vga=771 noapic nolapic
Press F1 to F10 for more help or ENTER to return to the menu.
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F7 Devuan daedalus 5.0.0-rc5 installer built on 20230712
SPECIAL BOOT PARAMETERS - VARIOUS DISK DRIVES
* You can use the following boot parameters at the boot prompt.
HARDWARE PARAMETER TO SPECIFY
Adaptec 151x, 152x - aha152x.aha152x=iobase[,irq[,id[,reconnect]]]
Adaptec 1542 - aha1542.aha1542=iobase[,bon,boff[,dmaspeed]]
Adaptec 274x, 284x - aic7xxx.aic7xxx=no_reset
BusLogic SCSI Hosts - BusLogic.BusLogic=iobase
Certain DELL machines - aic7xxx.aic7xxx=no_probe
* The list is incomplete; refer further to the kernel documentation.
* Example: aic7xxx.aic7xxx=no_probe
Press F1 to F10 for more help or ENTER to return to the menu.
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F8 Devuan daedalus 5.0.0-rc5 installer built on 20230712
SPECIAL BOOT PARAMETERS - INSTALLATION SYSTEM
* You can use the following boot parameters at the boot prompt.
RESULT PARAMETER TO SPECIFY
Disable framebuffer vga=normal fb=false
Don't start PCMCIA hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false
Force static network config netcfg/disable_dhcp=true
Set keyboard map bootkbd=es
* Accessibility options (not available for all images):
RESULT PARAMETER TO SPECIFY
Use high contrast theme theme=dark
Use Braille tty brltty=driver,device,texttable
Use Speakup speakup.synth=driver
* Example: vga=normal fb=false
Press F1 to F10 for more help or ENTER to return to the menu.
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F9 Devuan daedalus 5.0.0-rc5 installer built on 20230712
GETTING HELP
* Don't despair! If you need help to install Devuan daedalus the
Devuan team is ready to help you!
* We are especially interested in hearing about installation problems,
because in general they don't happen to only one person.
* We may have already heard about your particular problem and can
dispense a quick fix, or we would like to hear about it and work
through it with you, allowing the next user who comes up with
the same problem benefit from your experience!
* See the Installation Guide and documentation at the Devuan web site
for more information. You may also go to the dev1galaxy forum, or
ask for help on irc: libera.chat #devuan.
https://www.devuan.org (web site)
https://dev1galaxy.org (forum)
https://libera.chat (#devuan channel)
Press F1 to F10 for more help or ENTER to return to the menu.
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COPYRIGHT AND WARRANTIES
* Devuan GNU/Linux is Copyright (C) 2015-2023 Dyne.org Foundation.
* The Devuan GNU/Linux system is freely redistributable.
* After installation, the exact distribution terms for each
package are described in the corresponding file
/usr/share/doc/packagename/copyright.
* Devuan GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to
the extent permitted by applicable law.
* Thank you for choosing Devuan daedalus 5.0.0-rc5.
Your journey to init freedom has begun!
Press F1 to F10 for more help or ENTER to return to the menu.