Success - sort of.  I now have Adelie installed to a partition on one hard drive.  Have been trying for

some time to install to a usb thumb drive on 3 different computers - something I have done many times

before with other distros.  Adelie always installed OK but would not boot -- unable to mount root partition

on unkknown block (0,0).. Finally replaced the easy kernel with the current kernel & initrd from Devuan.

Wala - it worked!  Now installing other packages to hopefully create useable desktop distro. Will try

libre kernels from other distros as time permits.

I presume my installation problems are related the kernel configuration and/or gpt/mbr conflicts in the

hybrid install iso image.  I have 5 computers - 2 have uefi capable bios but all are mbr systems.

I want Adelie to succeed and wish you all well.  My current interests are pursuing totally free distros

and or systemd free ones.

Thank you for all your hard work

Carl Powers