Hi Salvatore, I used firmware-11.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso. And yes, I did not manually install firmware-misc-nonfree since this initially failed, and I still got a black screen which did not ever resolve or respond to VT switching unless I used nomodeset and deleted quiet. (With quiet removed, it doesn't black out, but it does stop ever responding after it prints the "switching from EFI VGA" line.)
I'll reboot in a bit and wait longer and see what happens... grep -C3 nouveau on syslog for, I believe, one of the failed boots says: Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.209185] TSC found unstable after boot, most likely due to broken BIOS. Use 'tsc=unstable'. Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.209187] sched_clock: Marking unstable (2208942206, 241638)<-(2215089173, -5905242) Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.221262] clocksource: Switched to clocksource hpet Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.305362] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0002 -> 0003) Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.305517] checking generic (c0030000 710000) vs hw (d2000000 1000000) Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.305519] checking generic (c0030000 710000) vs hw (c0000000 10000000) Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.305521] fb0: switching to nouveaufb from EFI VGA Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.305686] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25 Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.305783] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.305843] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA G84 (084700a2) Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.306955] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Invalid PCI ROM header signature: expecting 0xaa55, got 0x0001 Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.306966] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: unable to locate usable image Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.306975] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios ctor failed, -22 Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.306984] nouveau: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -22 Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.324639] random: fast init done Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.385518] ata1.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N, AP09, max UDMA/33 Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.457249] usb 4-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci -- On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 4:03 AM Salvatore Bonaccorso <car...@debian.org> 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? > > Regards, > Salvatore
