I installed a Buildroot system. This is a very minimal Linux that is mostly just busybox. Nonetheless, it can get on-line (cable, not wifi) and it can run the bedrock installer script just fine. Note, a separate Linux manages the boot loader and this provides the kernel for the Buildroot (now bedrock) system, for now.

I then added a Devuan (fork of Debian with no systemd) strata, with the intent to eventually have Devuan provide its own initramdisk & kernel.

One problem: I can't find the kernel. There is a /lib/modules for that kernel, but no Devuan vmlinuz its boot dir. I tried several packages that should have had the kernel but I can't find it. I did install a kernel source package but honestly I'd rather use the already-compiled stock Devuan kernel.

My problem is, I do not know if this is a Devuan problem or a bedrock problem. Can I please get a clue? What I mean is, does a strata fetch bring in the kernel? Did Bedrock then eat it? I know i installed the kernel later but ... did Bedrock then eat it?

Thank you.

Everything works as expected for me:

`brl fetch` tries to bring in just enough for the user to bootstrap whatever else they want. For most distros this is usually just the package manager, its explicit and implicit dependencies, and locale stuff. If users want anything else - like a kernel - they're expected to use the newly available package manager to install it.

`brl fetch` should not bring a kernel.

Can you provide exactly what you did to install devuan's kernel and check if devuan's kernel is installed?

Understood. This helps reduce my confusion.

At this point, I can't, so I'll have to retract my question. Sorry.

Thank you for the reply.

I'll have to do a fresh install of Devuan in a different way, then when that is working and stable, *then* I'll bedrock it.

I think the lession I am learning here is that Bedrock cannot eliminate the need to actually learn how things are done within each distro.

No worries, happy to help.

That's certainly an option and if you think that's best for you you're welcome to it. However, instead you could follow the steps I provided earlier to confirm it works for me. You can probably just `brl remove devuan` and try again. The way Bedrock segregates things into strata makes it really easy to manipulate the system like this and greatly reduces the need for fresh installs.

This is absolutely is the case. Bedrock is more about making stuff from other distros available than abstracting them. At the end of the day it's the software from all the other distros on your system that are actually doing things you need to understand.

The notable exception is pmm which should help a bit with this specific workflow once it's ready. You'll be able to query it for things like "which <stratum>/<package-manager> packages provide `/boot/*vmlinu*` files" without really needing to know the package manager's specific syntax. However, there could definitely be quirky distro- or package-manager-specific things which would keep this from working universally.

Good point. That worked. Thank you.

You're welcome