Bug#1107360: Trixie netinstall on Thinkpad T400s with Libreboot can't boot
On 10/06/2025 at 10:34, Franz Gratzer wrote:
Today I tried to overcome the problem by using the DVD image instead of
the netinstall version. Unfortunately I end up with the same behaviour.
This is expected.
At the moment it seems Trixie can not be started after being installed
(seemingly without issues) on a system using Libreboot.
Did you try with Bookworm or other distributions ?
The first screen that should be shown is GRUB menu. According to the
installer logs, GRUB was successfully installed on /dev/sda (SATA SSD).
Possible causes include:
- Libreboot fails to launch GRUB from the SSD
- GRUB hangs early, before displaying its menu
- GRUB hangs when switching to default graphic mode
You can try to disable GRUB graphic mode: boot the installer in rescue
mode, open the encrypted volume, select the root logical volume, start a
shell in that volume, edit /etc/default/grub to uncomment
GRUB_TERMINAL=console, run update-grub and reboot on the SSD.
If GRUB is embedded as a Coreboot payload, you can also try to use it to
boot Debian.
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