On 9/2/25 10:26 PM, Cedar Maxwell wrote:
Kernel 6.16 causes a black screen. No response to CTRL + ALT + F1, F2, etc. Please advise in troubleshooting. ...
I don't think you can necessarily conclude that the kernel is causing a black screen without more information. On your Wallstreet, did you replace Debian's 6.1.0-9 kernel that you mentioned earlier with 6.16, or did you upgrade all Debian packages ("apt-get dist-upgrade")?
If you ran a full "apt-get dist-upgrade" then there may some other issue causing the black screen. Do you see boot messages as the kernel starts to boot? Does the screen go blank at about the time a window manager starts? If you disable X11 by not running a window manager (I think Debian uses lightdm by default for Xfce), do you get a login prompt? Are you able to access the system over the network (ssh or telnet) or via a serial port? If yes, does /var/log/Xorg.0.log contain any useful information?
On Tue, 2025-09-02 at 20:31 -0500, Cedar Maxwell wrote:Good news gentlemen. Last time on OldWorld adventures: I attempted to install several versions of Debian but each attempt rendered the OS 9 install unbootable both in QEMU and on the WallStreet. However, the unbootability on the WallStreet appears to have been caused solely by my shoddy mSATA to IDE adapter. Although the installation didn't boot on QEMU, I tried another adapter (still JM20330 based) and it booted up. Note to QEMU maintainers perhaps lurking on this mailing list: Is this the intended behavior? I attempted to boot into Debian 6.1.0-9 using an image from 2023-05- 08. Mission success! I don't know yet if this because of an older kernel version, or because I omitted the GRUB partition, but I intend to test updating the kernel and reporting back. ...