Gregory, thank you for the reply

On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 09:18:25PM -0700, Gregory Nowak via Dng wrote:

> As I have previously stated, you need to install
> linux-firmware-nonfree and wireless-regdb, which should take care of
> that message. This isn't an error, you still seem to have a system which
> boots properly as far as I can tell.

I thought I mentioned that when installation finishes and I open
a terminal, it does not have access to the apt-get command. How do I
install the two packages otherwise? Also I do not understand why
the packages are needed if I am online via ethernet.

Also from that temrinal I can't find any ESP directory. The /
directory oes not have it nor does /boot. Normally after a boot
there is vmlinux in / and an efi in /boot. Do these magically
appear only after the reboot?

When I partition as non-expert I note that the ESP partition was
not given a name. I normally provide both a name and label for
all the partitions that I define. What is the function of the
"name" when defining a patition?

> This is the EFI partition on another drive. I assume this is what you
> call your running system, since the output you provided from the
> installed system you claim doesn't boot is on /dev/nvme0n1.
>

> >   |__nvme1n1    
> >   nvme1n1p2  ext4  root .... 

Sorry for the abiguity. I have twp boxes. The older one has two
SCSI disks and is the one that I use to send this email. The
other box has two SDDs, neither of whicn can boot. In the box
witn the SDD disks, the GRUB menu comes up and devuan begins to
boot. The kernel and initram disk are loaded. But then hangs witth the
messsage about waiting for firmware. I'm conected via Ethernet.
Why do I need the firmware?

Here is my proceedure. I do non-expert install to whole disk and
accept all defaults. I use guided partitioning with all files in
one parittion. The partitions after the 1 MB free space are 1)
531 MB ESP partition that will be formatted and flagged as boot,
b) a 999 GB disk to be formatted ext4, abd c) a 1 GB swap to be
formatted. Sole excedption to defaults are thate I do npot insall
a DE or Xfce.

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