On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 11:18:18AM -0500, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 09:33:27AM -0700, Peter via Dng wrote:
> > Greetings Haines,
> >

> > From:    Haines Brown via Dng <dng@???>
> > Date:    Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:41:17 -0500
> > > I am having difficulty installing the devuan operating system ...

> >
> > As a learning and troubleshooting exercise I suggest this.
>
> I did as you you sugggest and installed EasyOS to an external USB
> drive. No problem booting it. This suggests that my problem is
> with the netinst ISO. I have the dedaelus netinst on two keys,
> but neither work.
>
> When I try to install dedaelus with one of them and boot it after
> the install, in the preamble ther is something about mismath if
> irq flags. When I begin to install I'm told that the firmware
> regulatory.db is missing and can install it from removable media.
> Since I am ethernet rather than wireless I say no then to load it
> from removable media. If I'm connectred by wireless, I have no
> trouble getting network autoconfiguration to work without having
> to load firmare.
>
> I use guided partiting for entire disk with all files in one
> partition. I make default choices.

Doing it simple, the first is to be sure you have completed the
installation, which is all the way to where the dialog comes up
telling to remove the installer and reboot. If you do so, i.e., you
remove the installer and reboot; what happens?

* Note that while the installer is in place, the machine with UEFI boot
is likely to boot into the installer again.

So does that lead to something?

If you only get the "grub rescue>" prompt then it indicates the
installation was not complete. We can look into that if so.

Ralph.

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>      Haines Brown

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