Re: Thinkpad X13s boot loop after install
I'm not up and running Debian Trixie on this laptop. Even typeing this
message on said laptop.
The install path:
Installed Debian 11 using the install image from the google dock Lionel
pointed me at. Had to feed the URL to the image into archive.org and
download it from there.
Since Debian 11 doesn't see the wifi on this device, I grabbed a
mini-USB-C docking station I had and hooked it up. This allowed me to
update Bullseye to it's latest.
I then plugged in the USB stick that had the Debian 13 image on it,
mounted it to /mnt, updated /etc/apt/sources.list to use the local repo
and did a dist-upgrade there.
This took a few rounds of 'apt --fix-broken install', but I wound up
with a booting Trixie image.
I then followed the Debian wiki page for post-install stuff.
I uninstalled the 'lenovo-firmware' pkg, then installed the
'firmware-atheros` pkg, and now I have wifi, but it's really slow, like
sub-megabit speeds. Don't seem to have bluetooth yet, still poking
around, see if there's something else to be fixed.
This is still using the 6.0rc3 kernel from that custom Bullseye image.
I've not been able to find another kenel that will boot on here, even
the one from the Trixie installer that was able to install Trixie the
first time. Every kernel I've tried gets stuck looping
Running /scripts/local-block ... done
And eventually dumps out to the busybox shell of the initrd. I even
tried grabbing the 6.0.9 source and builing it based on the
/proc/config.gz of the 6.0rc3 working kernel. No dice.
Does anyone know of a newer confirmed working kernel for the X13s?
I'd like to get proper wifi and sound at a minimum.
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Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
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