Hi, Thanks for the reply. I unfortunately didn't pay attention to whether or not it was a warm or cold reboot. On the first install, it did not boot the first time after the installation, so I guess that was a warm reboot. It's a very old laptop without a battery so I yanked the cord to stop the infinite loop. It was repeating a message about iwlwifi very rapidly. The display manager had not yet started. When I started from a cold state it did this maybe 10 times and then let me in. I erroneously installed the "linux-firmware-nonfree" package thinking that was what I needed to do. It would never get booted again, no matter what I did- it remained stuck in the loop.
I reinstalled the system and chose XFCE because I was on the fence about which I wanted anyway (I've always been an LXDE user, but it seems like they're paying less attention to the GTK world.) This time i found the firmware-iwlwifi package in non-free and used it, and no more problems. Sorry I can't be more help- the specific system that crashed is gone. The link you provided might have helped a new Debian user- I was deliberately using the beta 2 installer because I thought it would help Debian to have one more person use it. It certainly wasn't a fatal problem, but in previous versions of Debian not having the correct firmware simply meant that the interface was unavailable- it didn't lead to a crash. Thanks for all your hard work. Jessie is a great system, and I wish I had the technical skills to be more help. I can't wait for the official release. Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141117190905.ga1...@gpm.stappers.nl
