On 9/11/25 00:00, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 9/10/25 1:53 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>
>> Looking at https://www.devuan.org/os/install it seems everything is
>> x86_64 only. Is there any documentation anywhere regarding a cross
>> debootstrap to something like RISC-V or even aarch64?
>
> There is a --foreign option in both debootstrap and cdebootstrap. Last
> time I looked, only the latter was working properly.
...
> So if you don't want to use an emulator to bootstrap, you can get a root
> file system that will perform the second half of bootstrapping on first
> boot -- but you need a kernel, and you need to be able to access the
> root file system.
>

Thank you for the detailed reply. I still wonder if this procedure is
documented anywhere. I was not really aware of cdebootstrap and only
barely aware of debootstrap. :)

I have a SiFive P550 board which is currently running RHEL10. That is a
sad state of affairs but the RHEL10 stuff was trivial to install. It
seems to work so long as I never reboot it. That is entirely missing X11
and it is just stuffed to the brim with madness in terms of services no
one would ever want or need. Not the correct distro for a lab bench type
board like a RISC-V.

I will hunt around and see what there is for documentation on this new
cdebootstrap and then write up something myself.

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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken