Dear Debian volunteers,
I hope you can help me with a problem I've been experiencing since Debian
Jessie; After doing a new installation, debian boots, but only presents me
with a tty1 login screen, and no graphical session started. Here's what
I've tried so far:
-Different versions of debian: netinstall vs full CD, with and without
live, with and without nonfree, amd64 or i386 (it's an i7 I'm trying to
install to; I've done lots of googling and found many people asking how to
tell architecture type, but no real answers, so I'm going to stick with my
guess that amd64 is for 64 bit computers, and i386 is for 32 bit computers,
and all the rest are for uncommon architectures that I will never need.) -
that gives 16 possibilities, of which I have tried about half but every
option gives the same result.
-Different Methods of putting the iso on the usb stick: using `dd
if=isofile.iso of=/dev/sdc; sync` (after checking that's the one with
gparted or fdisk -l) ; right clicking the isofile and choosing "open with
disk image writer" and "restoring" to the usb stick ; using mkusb(-dus).
I'm doing this because my previous way, using unetbootin, is said to be
obsolete for the latest version of debian, and because it wasn't working.
(the error message led me to the article or question where I found it was
obsolete)
-Searching for other people with this problem; just a few results: Tried
`startx` and `xstart` - programs don't exist. `grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log`
that file does not exist on the fresh install, it does on all my other
debian jessie installs which do work.
-Tried with 2 usb sticks, these have been used in the past to install
debian jessie to the same computer, (both of them - I install often) so I
don't know what is different but it's very unlikely both usb sticks have
become faulty.
I have a current workaround, which is to dd my current installation onto
the new harddisk, but I really want to have a clean install, which should
go through the installer.
I hope someone here can help me; the documentation is not very clear on how
to "write the iso to usb" and I suspect that is what I have done
incorrectly in this case.
Kind regards,
Tama