I’m trying to reinstall ipfire on my PC Engine using the serial console but I’m stuck at this screen:
I can enter the admin password, press RETURN. Then I get this screen and the installer hangs for more than 15 minutes.
Note: I’ve successfully installed IPfire a couple of times in the past. I just wanted to reinstall because /boot is full (the old install was done with just 64MB filesystem).
Any ideas how to proceed?
Is there a place where I could download an older image and then upgrade via pakfire?
Also: Any suggestions how to get rid of the junk ("?" characters) on the screen?
I run into the same issue it has nothing to do with the terminal or the weird line characters.
The reason are missing random numbers. As workaround use an usb stick and connect it to the apu and remove it some times to generate some interrupts for gathering ramdomness.
We will change the initskript order with core145 to fix this…