On 12/17/22 13:00, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote:
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.
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?
Thanks David, but as I explained, Debian/Stable doesn't "just work". You
need the second part of your condition, but it's hard to know if
hardware is supported until you try it. And what doesn't work one week
may work the next.
I don't blame Debian in this case. It's clearly an nVidia problem.
Normally I stay away from them when getting something for Linux, but I
got a great Black Friday deal. That's why I even got a new laptop to
begin with. Apart from the nVidia components, it seems to work fine.
Added nothing - just removed the Windows partitions and installed Linux.
As I explained, I used Debian netinst copied to a Ventoy USB. What was
strange is that Stable has no problem installing (just problems running)
but Testing seems to get hung up with the networking (when I tried a
graphical install, it at least showed that was what it was doing. The
text based installer flashed something on the screen but never got
around to doing more than the background colours - no text or progress
bar - so I wasn't sure what it was doing). Also the current testing
alpha netinst iso doesn't seem work with Ventoy, which meant I had to dd
it to its own usb stick. And yes, I only download the files from
debian.org.
Have you tried finding the Debian Testing netinst checksums? You can
find them for the weekly builds if you look hard enough but not the ones
for the Alpha release. I thought maybe the alpha release would be a
little more stable than a weekly build....
I can confirm that the problem with FAT32 was fixed by a reboot. I don't
reboot every day normally,
The laptop is an ASUS FA506ICB. I'll be filing a bug report or three
later. Yesterday I just needed to get it working again, but I wanted to
document the pulling of hair and gnashing of teeth - I suspect I may
have to do this again...
STFW "ASUS FA506ICB linux" I am not seeing any promising hits. I would
re-install Windows, run Debian Stable in a VM, STFW periodically, wait
for a post by someone who succeeds running a GNU/Linux distribution on
that machine, and try again.
David
