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Re: Unable to boot new buster installation

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On Fri 12 Jun 2020 at 14:22:03 (-0700), Gary L. Roach wrote:
> On 6/11/20 1:24 AM, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> > On mercredi 10 juin 2020 19:53:53 CEST Gary L. Roach wrote:
> > > The sequence of events on boot up are Bios screen, Debian Window with OS
> > > selection, Boot up sequence, login/password ( Xorg not running), startx
> > > -> error window. So to answer your question, the message is after
> > > login/password.
> > Right.. Looks like there's no display manager installed. Depending on your
> > favorite environment, could you install one of sddm, lxdm or gdm ?
> > 
> > On my side, I used sddm.
> > 
> > > Question: Where is the file that contains the display setup (ie refresh
> > > rate, resolution.)
> > This can be set in /etc/X11/xorg.conf in some cases (e.g. for nvidia
> > hardware). Now, most of the required information is retrieved from hardware by
> > Xorg. xorg.conf can usually be removed (except with nvidia driver).
> > 
> > > Where would randr get its information if Xorg was
> > > running?
> > >From Xorg process.
> > 
> > > I would have responded sooner but have been hit with a severe case of
> > > Vertigo.
> > No problem.
> > 
> I think I have finally found the problem. Running "journalct -xb" and
> running down the listing, I found that I was missing a Radeon video
> driver. The driver is non-free and the installation disk doesn't setup
> the sources.list for non-free downloads. So I'm in a catch 22
> situation. When I install the net-install buster disk and switch to
> recover mode the network is not available  and without the network I
> can't get the firmware I need to get the system started. I've tried
> the debian-live-10.40-amd64-kde+non-free disk and found it very
> confusing. In short, it didn't work either. There is a firmware
> package "firmware-amd-graphics"in the debian suit but without network
> access I can't get at it.
> 
> If anyone could tell me how to start the network in rescue mode it
> would help. Why is the network shut down in rescue mode in the first
> place.

I can't quite follow why you need rescue mode. After the
login/password ( Xorg not running) in your sequence above,
just don't run startx. Then edit the sources list, adding non-free to
it. Now run apt or apt-get to update, and install the package.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install firmware-amd-graphics

I've attached my sources.list as a pattern, though you can leave out
the lines starting with deb-src.

Cheers,
David.

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Unable to boot new buster installation "Gary L. Roach" <garyroach719.lists@gmail.com> - 2020-06-07 21:20 +0200
  Re: Unable to boot new buster installation "Gary L. Roach" <garyroach719.lists@gmail.com> - 2020-06-08 01:50 +0200
    Re: Unable to boot new buster installation Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-06-08 09:20 +0200
  Re: Unable to boot new buster installation mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-06-08 10:10 +0200
  Re: Unable to boot new buster installation Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> - 2020-06-10 14:20 +0200
    Re: Unable to boot new buster installation "Gary L. Roach" <garyroach719.lists@gmail.com> - 2020-06-10 20:00 +0200
      Re: Unable to boot new buster installation Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2020-06-10 21:20 +0200
        Re: Unable to boot new buster installation "Gary L. Roach" <garyroach719.lists@gmail.com> - 2020-06-10 23:20 +0200
          Re: Unable to boot new buster installation mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-06-12 08:40 +0200
      Re: Unable to boot new buster installation Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> - 2020-06-11 10:50 +0200
        Re: Unable to boot new buster installation "Gary L. Roach" <garyroach719.lists@gmail.com> - 2020-06-12 23:30 +0200
          Re: Unable to boot new buster installation David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-06-13 06:30 +0200
            Re: Unable to boot new buster installation (SOLVED) "Gary L. Roach" <garyroach719.lists@gmail.com> - 2020-06-13 20:40 +0200

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