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

Go to https://archive.org/details/devuan-jessie-c201-libre-2GB

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.