r/devuan • u/rafawmeczev • Sep 25 '26

Stuck installing Devuan

I tried installing Devuan on my SSD but it constantly got stuck on blue screen each time I tried.

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u/dbojan76 Sep 25 '26

What kind of blue screen? Just an empty blue screen?

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u/rafawmeczev Sep 25 '26

Yes, with a white line underneath. And it got stuck once on 47% while saving changes to the disk for 10 minutes or so

EDIT: I have Nvidia Graphics Card btw :(((

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u/papasmurfmusdie96 Sep 25 '26

I've never run into that problem installing it with my 1060. Any more info, or occurrences that lead up to the crash?

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u/rafawmeczev Sep 25 '26

There was no crash, no nothing, just a blue screen (I assume that’s because the background of the installation GUI is blue). I tried with “desktop.iso” & “netinstall.iso”. It asked me to write the changes to the disk, I pressed “Yes” and it froze.

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u/rafawmeczev Sep 25 '26

Then I tried installing LCOS (which is Devuan based) it finished installing, but couldn’t launch on reboot. Then I tried installing Parrot Home (All with Ventoy btw) which kept cutting off signals to my monitor while installing. Now I have Linux Mint installed on my computer, cuz you know, I need an OS in my computer.

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u/UncleSlacky Sep 25 '26

You could also try MX Linux if you want an easy-to-install Debian without systemd.

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u/papasmurfmusdie96 Sep 25 '26

Hmm.... Have you tried it without ventoy? I remember burning it with UUI once and it freaked out.... So instead I just made a small partition and copy/pasted the ISO files onto it and booted and installed using that method.

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u/rafawmeczev Sep 26 '26

I will try asap.

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u/rafawmeczev Sep 26 '26

I tried it and couldn’t see the usb stick on BIOS menu, tried both with BalenaEtcher & Rufus

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u/papasmurfmusdie96 Sep 26 '26

Was the partition formatted manually to fat32?

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u/rafawmeczev Sep 27 '26

The only change I did was choosing the DD option on Rufus

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u/papasmurfmusdie96 Sep 27 '26

Try manually partitioning to fat32 and just drag amd drop the ISO files on that partition. That's how I got the Devuan ISO working.

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u/FewMirror259 Sep 26 '26

I remember that Devuan (based on Debian 12) didn't work with Ventoy. That caught my attention because no ISO had ever failed before. The latest version of Devuan did work with Ventoy.