Flashing Libreboot
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Building a bootable Devuan fro ISO
- Get the Devuan ASCII (based on Stretch) ISO netinstall - here
- Install in VirtualBox
- Install Devuan ASCII in VirtualBox
- Make sure to include console productivity and SSH server options
- Use the DevSus script at https://notabug.org/dimkr/devsus
Get a pre-built Devuan ISO image
Devuan installation from bootable USB
- Insert the USB key
- Boot the system, you should see Libreboot prompt with boot options. Use Ctrl-U to boot from USB
- Once at the login prompt, login as root (no password)
- dd if=/devuan-jessie-c201-libre-16GB.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=50M
- Turn off the system, remove the USB key
- Turn it on again, you should now have a login prompt
Connect to your network
The image does not include drivers for the on-board wifi as they are proprietary. You will need a USB wifi adapter such as those from ThinkPenguin.com. An Atheros AR9271 based adapter was used in this example (USB ID 0cf3:9271)
- Insert your USB adapter on the right port
- Verify a new interface is available:
# ip a
- Generate a configuration file for wpa_supplicant and verify its content:
# wpa_passphrase MYSSID passphrase > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
- there will be no prompt to type, just type your wifi password and press Enter.# cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
to check the newly generated config file
- Assuming your interface is wlan0, connect to your network like this:
# wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
dhclient wlan0
The connection should now be up, check with ip a
or ping yahoo.com
for example.