On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote:
My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. It stops after
I select a normal boot - it goes to the text mode console and displays
an error message about: [ 0.717939] ACPI BIOS Error (bug).
If I go into recovery mode, I don't get that error but then it stops
after a message about the nouveau driver. I never get to a command
prompt.
I can boot from System Rescus CD. I get the same BIOS error message
but then it continues on as if it wasn't important.
I tried updating the BIOS but that did nothing to resolve the problem.
I did a reinstall and the problem survives.
The problem actually started earlier in the day, when I did the apt
full-upgrade. It updated the nvidia drivers so it wanted a reboot.
When I rebooted, it refused to start sddm. It just sat there. I
rebooted into recovery mode and changed to lightdm, which did the same
thing. Gdm3 actually switched into a graphics mode before hanging.
I purged the nvidia drivers and that was when the message cropped up.
I tried booting from system rescue cd then switching into a bash shell
on my / partition but lost my DNS so I couldn't (re) install the
nouveau drivers (didn't want to touch the nvidia ones again). I did
try updating initramfs, in case there was some nvidia stuff hanging
around but it didn't help.
That led to me reinstalling. I copied the Bookworm netinst to my
Ventoy USB stick, but it wouldn't boot so I went back to Bullseye -
which installed but wouldn't bring up a GUI. Booted to recovery mode,
brought up the network and upgraded to Bookworm. That is where I am
now - with the error message appearing after I leave the boot menu.
This is basically clean install - just done in two parts. My laptop
had been running fine since I got it and installed Debian.
I couldn't get the Bookworm alpha install to work even when dd'd
directly to a USB stick. However I was able to get to a recovery mode
from the Bullseye install on Ventoy. From there I added the nVidia
drivers and that got me past the error message. I was able to eventually
get to a recovery session from the installation on the laptop. Sddm
simply refused to work while gdm3 only seems to give me a Gnome desktop.
After installing lightdm, I was able to get back to a Plasma desktop.
Along the way, I found that my (Debian/Bookworm) workstation wont read
USB sticks formatted with FAT32! I'm hoping a reboot later will fix that.
Anyway, sddm seems to have some real problems with nVidia drivers. My
laptop on the other hand seems to need them even though non-Bookworm
distros don't.
If you want a GNU/Linux distribution that "just works", one possibility
is Debian Stable and "supported hardware". The former is easy --
download a d-i ISO. The latter can be anywhere from trivial to
impossible to determine a priori; the practical answer is install and
find out.
What is the manufacturer, model, and part number of your computer? What
options does it have? What components have you added, changed, or
removed? What external hardware is connected? Do you have a broadband
Internet connection?
What d-i media did you use? Where did you get it? Did you verify the
checksum of the download and/or media?
David
