Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Hi Rich,
On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 02:45:26AM -0400, Rich Ercolani wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 5.10.46-4 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: rincebr...@gmail.com > > Dear Maintainer, > > (I have no idea how many people might run into this, but...) > > I just had occasion to set up bullseye on an old Macbook Pro. After > convincing it to boot the installer > in the first place (which was "exciting"), the installer worked > fine... > > ...then on first boot, I selected the top GRUB option, it booted, > and very shortly the display blanked and the system stopped > responding to any input that I could see. > > I left it for a minute or two to see if it would come back, but no, > nothing visibly occurred. So I rebooted. > > Drop the quiet from the kernel parameters, it goes up to something > mentioning nouveau and switching from EFI VGA to modesetting, and > then...stops, entirely, no response to VT switching or any other > commands, for at least the few minutes I waited. (I'll reboot and > take a photo shortly.) > > So I try nomodeset, and we get all the way to X happily (in much > less time than I let it sit to see if it would come back, so I don't > think it would have come back...) > > Slightly inconvenient. Fortunate that I didn't try the graphical > installer, I suppose. > > I'll try fiddling with kdump and non-journald logging so I can get a > better idea what might be happening when it stops outputting... #991941 and https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/ch06s04#completing-installed-system Do you have needed firmware installed, which installer image did you use? Regards, Salvatore
