I think I need to see the installation log to figure out some of this
stuff. It should be in your home directory in the installed system. If you
ran the cli version of refracta installer without using the -d/--debug
option, the log will be useless. The graphical version makes a verbose log
by default.

You should use the efi partition on the first hard drive. If you installed
the bootloader to the one on the second drive, you probably need to change
the order of the drives in the bios.

I don't know what you mean about booting to maintenance mode and refracta
recognizing the root password. The boot menu of the installed system
should have a boot option for recovery mode under the Advanced options. The
live isos don't have the extra boot options that the installer isos have
for booting to a shell in the installed system or reinstalling the
bootloader.

If you really have a partition 100, then I apologize. I didn't expect
anyone to go over 99. Although that shouldn't matter for selecting an
existing swap partition, because the script uses blkid for that. The root,
boot and home partitions use 'find' and the pattern for nvme is
nvme[0-9]n[0-9]p[1-99].

Refractainstaller does not partition the drive, but it will format the
partitions unless you tell it not to. It's a checkbox in the graphical
installer and for the cli installer it's a config file option.

I don't understand your question about the default choice of N(o) on
selecting a partition for root. There shouldn't be any partitions selected
by default. The installer doesn't know where to put stuff until you tell it.

fsmithred

On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 4:06 PM Haines Brown via Dng <dng@???>
wrote:

> Having done an expert installation of Debian or Devuan perhaps a dozen
> times, the Devuan refracta installer has me beat.
>
> I'm running Daedalus from a SSD on a desktop machine. I installed a
> second SSD and on which wish to install Daedalus as well. I had
> started to a cross install and ao this second SSD is partioned
> with gdisk and its parstitions formatted. There are 9 partitions with
> swap being the 10th. Here are some examples:
>
> partition 1 labeled boot is 5 GB GUID. Type is Linux file system
> partution 2 is 550 GB with EF00 file system and abel /boot/efi No flag
> partition 3 is 20 GB partition format type 8304
> partition 4 is 300 GB format type 8302 and label /home
> ...
> partion 100 is 30 GB with partition type sw amd label swap
>
> The problem is that when I boot after the installation, it fails
> because fsck cannot run, with status 8 (operational error). Web
> searches no help. Error can be "Checking root file system...fsck.ext4"
> "Permission denied while trying to open /run/rootdev"
>
> I would like to go to mainteance, but refracta does not recognize root
> password (I reinstalled four times and was particularly careful about
> the password).
>
> Does refracta have an "expert" installation option? Or later do you
> simply choose to repartion?
>
> Refracta sees two EFI parttions. I've tried to install with both but
> outcomc the same. Athough not usual choice I decided to stick with the
> efi partition on the new disk becaue I may have damaged the old disk.
>
> I stick with default options except to provide labels in fstab
>
> Since I already have parttions hopefully formatted I skip
> partitioning. If one chooses to repartition, how does the installer
> know to which of the partions to send files. Some are unlabeled.
>
> The instllaer says to select swap partiton becaue it sees one on my
> old SSD and one on the new SSD. It sees the latter as /dev/nvme1n1p10.
> But when I tell the installer to use it it says it can't find the swap
> partition and will use a swap file instead. I don't undersand.
>
> The installer asks to which partition to install. I select
> /dev/nvme1n1p3 labelled root. But why is N(o) the default choice here?
>
> Refracta copied files to the partitions and sets up the space
> (partition?). It also installs a boot loader.
>
> After setting root and user passwords, I'm told to reboot. The boot
> unsuccess for the reason indicated above.
>
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