On Saturday 14 February 2026 at 16:41:17, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:

> 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.

You say you are having problems installing Daedalus (from the subject line).

Can you successfully install Chimaera?

Also, what options are you selecting during the installation process?

Specifically:

1. Are you allowing the installer to set up the disk partitioning, or are you
trying to do that manually? (If the latter , then I suggest trying the
former, to see if it resolves the problem).

2. Are you going for a text-only (no graphical desktop environment)
installation (which is much faster, and results in a simpler system) to see
whether this works?

> 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:

I do not see what you quote as being an error. It mentions missing firmware,
but that doesn't mean the firmware is necessary - it's often just a suggestion
that you might want to install it for more feaures or better performance etc.

>   /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)

Nowhere above is the word "error".

> There is no efi directory, although I created a 550 MB ESP
> partition just after the 1 MG free space.

I recommend that (even if it's not what you want in the long run) you allow
the installer to fully partition the disk however it sees fit, instead of doing
anything like that manually. If it works, you then know what partitions are
needed if you subsequently choose to do manual partitioning.


Antony.

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