I had what sounds like the same problem, on more than one system.  I
found a work-around:

 1. I was able to boot the
    "devuan_daedalus_5.0.0_amd64_desktop-live.iso" image from a USB
    stick, and then use its refracta-installer program to install to the
    SSD.

2. Power off, remove the USB, power back up, and it booted successfully.

 3. Then it was just a matter of choosing all the packages I really
    wanted --- KDE Plasma, sddm, vim-gtk3, imagemagick, all the good
    stuff :-)

-Bob

On 11/1/24 08:00, dng-request@??? wrote:
> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:44:58 -0400
> From: Haines Brown<haines@???>
> To:dng@???
> Subject: [DNG] Flawed installation
> Message-ID:<ZyO0CqYy+lY3Hjbj@???>
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> I'm trying to install daedalus on a SSD. When finished, it says to
> boot the system.
>
> The boot fails. When boot went to check my root file system, it failed
> because permission denied to open run/root/dev/
>
> I enter maintenance and discover that while there is a /run directory,
> it does not hold a root directory.
>
> After reporting the failure, I'm told that a manual fsck must be
> performed. What does tis have to do with access to run/root/dev?
>
> In any case I umount /dev/nvme0n1 in order to run # fsck /dev/nvme0n1.
> But I can't because it is in use. I boot to the refracra instraller
> and try to run fsck from it terminal. It can't read the superblock. I
> tried others without success or else the device lacke an extt4 file
> system. And yet when I installed I was care to have the boot and
> root file system formatted.
>
>
> -- Haines Brown

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R A Montante, Ph.D.
Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Digital Forensics
Commonwealth University - Bloomsburg University campus
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