Re: problem installing t, ext4rixie
On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 01:35:33 +0200
Flo <debianflo@gmx.at> wrote:
> I have tried to install trixie, however, I ran into two problems at
> the very beginning:
>
> .) When I want to boot the computer, the system is not found
> automatically. I have to go into BIOS for selecting the disk to have
> it booted.
That is likely deliberate on the part of the firmware designers. The
firmware may have an option to boot to the installation media.
> At the installation process I chose manual partitioning
> and assigned a small partition as fat32 partition at /boot/efi and a
> bigger one as root partition. Maybe this was not correct? /boot/efi
> is empty now which probably shouldn't be.
/boot/efi should not be empty.
root@testing:~# find /boot/efi/
/boot/efi/
/boot/efi/EFI
/boot/efi/EFI/debian
/boot/efi/EFI/debian/shimx64.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/debian/grubx64.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/debian/mmx64.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/debian/fbx64.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/debian/BOOTX64.CSV
/boot/efi/EFI/debian/grub.cfg
root@testing:~#
When partitioning manually, look at the options of how to use the
partition: swap, ext4, fat, etc. One of those options should be for
EFI. I suspect that it wants a minimum size. I don't know what that is,
but when I let the installer do it for me, I get a UEFI partition of
616M.
>
> .) When I type, even on the console, there is a delay. Reminding me
> on working remotely with a not really good connection. Mouse is also
> crazy, one is super slow, the other one super fast, also with delay.
I suspect we will need to know a lot more about your system than you
describe here. Two things to look at:
If any of the mice or keyboard use USB or Bluetooth, make sure you have
the relevant firmware installed and that it gets loaded. Similarly for
wifi.
You might also install gpm and see how they do in a console.
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