Re: hangs at boot
On Fri 09 Dec 2022 at 15:22:23 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 01:57:44PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > You and I presumably run our systems with multi-user as the final^H^H^H^H^H
default
> > target. I think the OP had graphical instead, but hadn't installed
> > a DM.
>
> I didn't change the default target.
>
> unicorn:~$ systemctl get-default
> graphical.target
>
> In the absence of a DM package of any kind, it gives me a getty/login
> prompt on tty1. It's never failed yet, so I've never had to dive deeply
> into how it actually works.
You're right. I does appear that the postinst script of the DM
is what creates the symlink in /etc/to trigger the DM.
> > but as the OP appears to have had UEFI/BIOS issues, that might mean
> > that the d-i failed in a manner we haven't been told about.
… and I'd forgotten about the small matter of their lacking the home partition.
> Yeah. And if the whole system has been wiped and reinstalled, I doubt
> we'll ever learn the answer.
Agreed.
Cheers,
David.
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