On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 10:03:20AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > 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?
nevermind, skip the first question. The question raised by Ben in the other bug though still holds (similarly in your case firmware-misc-nonfree seems installed already). Regards, Salvatore
