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Bug#925891: marked as done (Debian Black Screen of Death worse than Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death)

Your message dated Tue, 02 Apr 2019 14:29:11 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen
has caused the Debian Bug report #926149,
regarding Debian Black Screen of Death worse than Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death
to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist

In bug #925556, I showed you what a failed install looks like to a user
who has booted via grub's "(recovery mode)" entries.

If the user hadn't touched the keyboard, a normal boot would instead
proceed, whereupon the user would just end up on a black screen.

They might say 'I tried Debian. Black screen! Not even "BSOD" with a few
words on it. Forget it!'

"One can't just hack X Windows to do that" you might say...

Well please do something.

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On Tue, 2019-04-02 at 21:13 +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> I'll be very happy to help you test this week.
> Next week I wish to proceed with final installation though.
> 
> BH> Was the firmware (firmware-amd-graphics package) installed on your test
> BH> system?
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=925556#25
> mentions what ISO I used, and all logs are attached to that bug report.
> 
> Note I do all my installs offline with just the ISO.

So you used a netinst image with no network.  I don't think this should
be expected to work.

Ben.

> I recall having worked around the /dev/sdX issue, one can get as far as
> (Staring at the stuck screen with one of the last messages being amdgpudrmfb ...)
> 
> I recall with nomodeset in effect, logs will contain
> [drm:amdgpu_init [amdgpu]] *ERROR* VGACON disables amdgpu kernel modesetting.
> but at least one can still use the computer.
-- 
Ben Hutchings
Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production:
                               A fail-safe circuit will destroy others.

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