On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 10:13:07PM +0300, Gunnar Gervin wrote:
> Hi.
> After I put EFI in sda1 Refracta installer was not satisfied and told me to
> put 'boot installer' in, and write some (unspecified) text in fstab, but
> wasn't in ETC.
>
> How and what to write in fstab?
>
> You tell me to specify question.
> How to specify a total mess?
> I'm trying to put a (Debian fork), Devuan x86_64 installed, in a ssd 1T
> external drive connected with usb to my old Mac (with dual boot Linux mint
> i386 -works, but cannot Zoom/Skype) +Devuan('boots' blinking ? only).
> After installed x86_64 almost finished with gdisk, Refracta asks me to put
> in 'boot installer'. I thought it was EFI(, that I put in sda1) ?
> Saw a message:
> "Efi not supported." In Devuan(?).
> But Mint said it would only EFI it,
> & then it worked. But only in 32b.
> Debian and Devuan obviously don't mix with Mint. And vice versa. Why not,
> really? You can learn around Efi & Grub from each other. Now you're both
> leaving it all up to Rod Smith.
> But to me it seems a bit too much for 1 man/team. Is Linux necessary to be
> such a mess ?
Gunnar,
If Devuan don't support EFI, they don't support EFI - but that's off-topic
here anyway. As with all Debian derivatives, they do things differently -
our efforts here can only ever be best endeavors
Refracta is not a Debian installer. Nor is rEFInd
Debian Mint is a Debian derviative. Go and ask there. It's quite possible that
they won't have any clue about your Mac either. (Although they are clueful
folks, they have fewer developers to go round). See above re. Debian
derivatives.
Linux isn't a mess. Trying to mix distributions is, especially on minimal
knowledge / slightly obscure hardware.
If you can bear to start again and clear what you have - delete what you've
done so far:
>From among the installers for Debian Bullseye yesterday:
Try first:
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-mac-11.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso
[NOTE: This is the installer optimised for early Mac]
Else:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-11.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso
[The unofficial non-free image that also contains firmware]
Very exceptionally: try the Debian multi-arch image but come back here before
you do. [That's in case you have 32 bit EFI and 64 bit capable processor -
like Intel Bay Trail, I think - some few years ago].
Keep notes as you go. Try and raise single issues - it'll help.
All the very best, as ever,
Andy Cater
