Thinkpad X13s boot loop after install
Hi all, new to the list...
I've had this X13s for a while now, but it's been running Win 11pro. I
had looked into running Debian on it and found the instructions for
installing it, but those showed using the daily testing/trixie bits, so,
I thought I'd wait until Trixie was the stable release, which was this
weekend.
I otherwise followed the same set of instructions from the wiki
(https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Thinkpad/X13s). Went mostly
smoothly, but for a few things at the end:
1) "Install additional packages"
We're instructed to install:
- firmware-qcom-soc
- protection-domain-mapper
- qrtr-tools
- acpi
The first one installs, but the other 3 error out as being
unavailable packages. OK, maybe they're not needed anymore?
2) Go back to main screen and Continue, which reboots, get the grub
screen, tries to load the default and it reboots.
I found a thread from May 2023 where someone else reported the same
boot loop.
The thread starts here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2023/05/msg00022.html
His solution:
Something had changed the "debian" EFI boot option to load directly
grubaa64.efi instead of DtbLoader.efi.
I added another boot option "Debian-LEM" that loads DtbLoader.efi
and I'm now successfully booted into my system using Linaro's
kernel linux-image-6.2.0-aarch64-laptops-02306-g9f9a1903a65e
(I had previously, while trying to debug the problem, chrooted
into my install from the rescue system of the install USB stick
from people.linaro.org, and copied that kernel's dtb file into
/boot/efi/dtb/f249803d-etc-etc.dtb)
Thing is, I can't get back into even the installer or recovery-mode from
the installer image to try and fix anything. Booting from the install
image again, twiddling the boot option to include 'arm64.nopauth' and
ctrl-x, it does the same boot loop. So far, the only way I've found to
get anywhere is to start over fresh, do a restore of Windows, copy the
dtb file into place, then boot the debian installer again and eventually
wind up back here, and that process takes hours.
The people.linaro.org URLs don't work any more, so, I can't use that
image to try for redcovery either.
Is there something I can do while in grub to get it to boot and then I
can fix things after I get in or other suggestions?
--
Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
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