I inadvertantly send messages to a responder to my question
instead of the list. So here recapitulate the issue.

I am having difficulty installing the devuan operating system on
a 1 TB SSD or a 2 TB SSD installed in a Gigabyte Z590 AORUS Elite
AX motherboard that has a dead GPU chip. In place of it I put a
1030 Low Profile D4 2G video card into a slot.

I try many times
to install both expert and non-expert, with ethernet connection,
and with a Live installer on a USB key and netinst ISO on a USB
key.

The installation goes smoothly, but when I boot after an
installation I get this error:

  /dev/nvme0n1p2: clean ...  
  INIT: version 3.06 booing 
  INIT: No inittab.d directory found 
  Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel S 
  Starting hot-plug events dispatcher: udevd.  
  Synthesizing the initial hotplug events (subsystems)...done 
  Synthesizing the initial hotplug events (devices)...done 
  Waiting for /dev/ to be fully populated...[ 5.301262 ] platform 
    regulatory.0: firmware failed to load regulatory.db (-2) 

    

  [ 5.3011313 ] firmware_class: see https:/wiki/debian.org/ 
    Firmware for information about missing firmware 
  [ 5.301394 ] platform regulatory.0: firmware: failed to 
   load regulatory.db (-2) 
  [ 5.316633 ] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: firmware: failed to 
    load iwl-debug -debug-yoyo.bin (-2) 
  [5.316695 ] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: firmware: failed to load 
    iwl-debug -debug-yoyo.bin (-2) 

Booting a live system on a key, I change ownership of a terminal
to root. I find in the /root directory the file
remove_firware.sh. I suspect this may be normal.

I mount one of the SSD drives and discover that its
/etc/fstab file has only these two lines

overlay / overlay rw 0 0
tpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid.nodev 0 0

The contents of the/dev
partition look normal off hand. The / directory holds a broken
out boot directory. The boot directory does not contain a
/boot/efi directory but / does have in it the the binary file
grub-efi-ia32_2.06-13_amd64.deb

There is no efi directory, although I created a 550 MB ESP
partition just after the 1 MG free space. In the partition table
the esp partition is automatically bootable, formatted and not
mounted. I thought the EFI partition is autaomatically placed in
the boot partition.

I look at grub.cfg and see that it seeks to load all_video and
vga. # lsmod says that for video the nouveau module is loaded

$ lsblk -fs | less

  ... 
  nvme0n1p1  vfat  FAT32   AB523-677B   
  |__nvme0n1 
  nvme0n1p2  ext4  root .... 
  |__nvme0n1 
  ... 
  nvme1n1p1  vfat  FAT32   AF62-C94A 
  |__nvme1n1    
  nvme1n1p2  ext4  root .... 
  |__nvme1n1 
  ... 

--

     Haines Brown