Re: Lenovo S205 boot
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 04:38:20AM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On an older Lenovo S205 on which I never have managed to get Debian
> running, I did a netinstall of
> debian-bullseye-DI-alpha2-amd64-netinst.iso
Uh it's been a while since
https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Lenovo/ideapadS205/wheezy
But lately I repurposed that for some test and had
Alpine installed, so in general it's still well supported by
Linux. Maybe I managed some time next week to give it a try with
Debian again.
> grub dummy failed, but the boot process terminates with the grub>
> prompt. I tried the ls command:
>
> grub> ls
> (proc) (hd0) (hd0,gpt3) (hd0,gpt2) (hd0,pt1)
>
> and I am able to boot manually by typing in grub commands:
>
> grub> root=(hd0,gpt2)
> grub> linux /vmlinuz root=dev/sda2
> grub> initrd /initrd.img
> grub> boot
Ok so the grub issues are still there one way or another.
Maybe you can take a look at what got generated in
/boot/grub/grub.cfg
> The boot now proceeds, but the stream of messages terminates with the
> line:
>
> IPV6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): enp2so: link becomes ready
Ignore it, probably link local auto configuration. Nothing to worry about.
> and the GUI interface does not start.
Did you install a complete desktop environment?
Sven
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