Re: Unable to boot new buster installation
On Fri 12 Jun 2020 at 14:22:03 (-0700), Gary L. Roach wrote:
> On 6/11/20 1:24 AM, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> > On mercredi 10 juin 2020 19:53:53 CEST Gary L. Roach wrote:
> > > The sequence of events on boot up are Bios screen, Debian Window with OS
> > > selection, Boot up sequence, login/password ( Xorg not running), startx
> > > -> error window. So to answer your question, the message is after
> > > login/password.
> > Right.. Looks like there's no display manager installed. Depending on your
> > favorite environment, could you install one of sddm, lxdm or gdm ?
> >
> > On my side, I used sddm.
> >
> > > Question: Where is the file that contains the display setup (ie refresh
> > > rate, resolution.)
> > This can be set in /etc/X11/xorg.conf in some cases (e.g. for nvidia
> > hardware). Now, most of the required information is retrieved from hardware by
> > Xorg. xorg.conf can usually be removed (except with nvidia driver).
> >
> > > Where would randr get its information if Xorg was
> > > running?
> > >From Xorg process.
> >
> > > I would have responded sooner but have been hit with a severe case of
> > > Vertigo.
> > No problem.
> >
> I think I have finally found the problem. Running "journalct -xb" and
> running down the listing, I found that I was missing a Radeon video
> driver. The driver is non-free and the installation disk doesn't setup
> the sources.list for non-free downloads. So I'm in a catch 22
> situation. When I install the net-install buster disk and switch to
> recover mode the network is not available and without the network I
> can't get the firmware I need to get the system started. I've tried
> the debian-live-10.40-amd64-kde+non-free disk and found it very
> confusing. In short, it didn't work either. There is a firmware
> package "firmware-amd-graphics"in the debian suit but without network
> access I can't get at it.
>
> If anyone could tell me how to start the network in rescue mode it
> would help. Why is the network shut down in rescue mode in the first
> place.
I can't quite follow why you need rescue mode. After the
login/password ( Xorg not running) in your sequence above,
just don't run startx. Then edit the sources list, adding non-free to
it. Now run apt or apt-get to update, and install the package.
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install firmware-amd-graphics
I've attached my sources.list as a pattern, though you can leave out
the lines starting with deb-src.
Cheers,
David.
# buster
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 10.0.0 _Buster_ - Official amd64 NETINST 20190706-10:23]/ buster contrib main non-free
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 10.0.0 _Buster_ - Official amd64 NETINST 20190706-10:23]/ buster contrib main non-free
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main non-free contrib
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
# buster-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
# This system was installed using small removable media
# (e.g. netinst, live or single CD). The matching "deb cdrom"
# entries were disabled at the end of the installation process.
# For information about how to configure apt package sources,
# see the sources.list(5) manual.
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