Hello Peter! On 3/30/22 18:04, Peter van Zaanen wrote: > After following these steps, and with the latest image from > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-28/ > which installs fine btw, the screen stays blank. > > Adding nomodeset to Grub enables me to boot to a login screen, but then > after installing a desktop environment startx will fail with an error > related to nomodeset. (it did in my previous install, I haven't tried > to install a graphical environment this time.)
What kind of VGA adapter does this machine have? Is it actually an Radeon GPU or something different? FWIW, I tested these images on my personal iBook G4 and after installing the AMD firmware package, updating the initramfs (which normally happens automatically when installing the package) and updating GRUB, the graphical environment worked fine for me. It's very important that /boot/grub is mounted read-write before trying to run update-initramfs and update-grub. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
