On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 08:13:33PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> Haines Brown via Dng said on Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:57:27 -0500
>
> >Correct. The working system has two SCSI drives; the non working two
> >SDD drives.
>
> If they don't work why are they in there? Take them out to remove the
> possibility that non-working drives are causing problems.

I don't understsand. The latter are two M.2 internal SSDs. If I remove then
then the systenm us not operable. I can't attempt an OS installation.

I insalled on a Seagate external drive, but same problem booting.

> Like I said
> earlier, you need to set up a test installation as simple as possible.
> Once that's running, you can add things one at a time and see what
> breaks.

The external drvie was soemwhat of a test system. If I had a test systemm,
installed Devuan its drive, what kind of things could ai add one at time/     

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     Haines Brown