Bug#992612: linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64: Macbook3,1 fails to boot without nomodeset with nouveau
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Hi Rich,
On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 02:45:26AM -0400, Rich Ercolani wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 5.10.46-4
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: rincebrain@gmail.com
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> (I have no idea how many people might run into this, but...)
>
> I just had occasion to set up bullseye on an old Macbook Pro. After
> convincing it to boot the installer
> in the first place (which was "exciting"), the installer worked
> fine...
>
> ...then on first boot, I selected the top GRUB option, it booted,
> and very shortly the display blanked and the system stopped
> responding to any input that I could see.
>
> I left it for a minute or two to see if it would come back, but no,
> nothing visibly occurred. So I rebooted.
>
> Drop the quiet from the kernel parameters, it goes up to something
> mentioning nouveau and switching from EFI VGA to modesetting, and
> then...stops, entirely, no response to VT switching or any other
> commands, for at least the few minutes I waited. (I'll reboot and
> take a photo shortly.)
>
> So I try nomodeset, and we get all the way to X happily (in much
> less time than I let it sit to see if it would come back, so I don't
> think it would have come back...)
>
> Slightly inconvenient. Fortunate that I didn't try the graphical
> installer, I suppose.
>
> I'll try fiddling with kdump and non-journald logging so I can get a
> better idea what might be happening when it stops outputting...
#991941 and https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/ch06s04#completing-installed-system
Do you have needed firmware installed, which installer image did you
use?
Regards,
Salvatore
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