Finally got it to work!! here is the procedure, I hope it helps someone else:
Step 1 start the installation with the Debian DVD and go through it unitl it sais Grub failed Step 2 in a separate USB memory and with a working debian system do: sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports download grub-efi-amd64 sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports download grub2-common sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports download grub-efi-amd64-bin sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports download efibootmngr sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports download libefvar0 sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports download linux-base sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports download Initramfs-tools sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports download linux-image-4XXXXXXX (i dont remember just pick your 4.x image) Step3 on the system that you are installing go into a terminal cd /target mount --rbind /sys sys/ mount --rbind /dev dev/ mount --rbind /run run/ chroot . /bin/bash Step 4 insert your usb and do cd /var/ ls and figure out its name usually /dev/sdb1 Step 5 mount your usb with the packages mkdir ./cosas mount /dev/sdb1 ./cosas cd cosas Step 6 start installing the linux kernel packages, then the grub starting in this order linux-base initramfs-tools linux-imagexxxxx libefvar0 efibootmngr grub-efi-amd64-bin grub2common grubefi-amd64 Step 7 exit the console by typing exit step 8 finish the installation step9 Reboot step 10 Enjoy. On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 01:43:49PM -0700, Humberto Hassey wrote: > > Hello I am a Debian user and just bought a nice laptop from system 76, I > > wiped ubuntu and proceed to install Debian, well it turns our that Debian > > does not recognize my network card, and the Grub packed on the installer > > does not recognize the NVMe drive correctly, so I can not boot, nor > connect > > to the internet in order to download the grub-efi from backports.. > > > > I tried getting a shell from the install DVD and chrooting into the > > installation to install the previously downloaded grub-efi-amd64 and > > linux-image 4.7xxx from backports, but the installation fails saying > there > > are unmet dependencies... > > On new hardware, you might be better of trying stretch instead, which > is probably only about half a year or so from release anyhow. > > I know NVMe install works, because I tried it, with the testing (stretch) > installer. Jessie does not support it, at least last I checked. > > -- > Len Sorensen >
