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Re: Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian Buster 10.4

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Way down at the bottom of the screen you may see a line with some 
instructions. Hit the one for 'commands' and you will get 'grub' and a 
cursor. I found a list of instructions for 'grub' but they didn't help 
me much. I'm stuck there. Mick

------ Original Message ------
From: "gajuph4pre@yahoo.com" <gajuph4pre@yahoo.com>
To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: 7/28/2020 2:36:06 PM
Subject: Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian 
Buster 10.4

>I chose the option Expert Install when I installed Debian Buster.
>
>I did not install any desktop environment, print server or the standard system utilities offered during installation.
>
>After successfully installing the OS, I rebooted into tty2 and installed the packages named below:
>
>xorg gnome-core gnome-tweak-tool synaptic gedit gdebi file-roller
>
>I did not want a bloated Gnome desktop environment and instead opted for a minimal install of it.
>
>Next I rebooted the OS and there was a list of messages flashing quickly on my screen. All of them were prefixed with [OK] with the word OK in bright green. I assumed there were no errors.
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>However instead of booting into the Gnome desktop, all I got is a white cursor blinking in the top left hand corner of my screen whose background is black.
>
>I appreciate any help you could give to have the Gnome desktop working.
>
>Useful information
>
>1. Before installing Debian, Secure Boot is enabled in the BIOS.
>2. The machine is not connected to the internet during installation.
>
>

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Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian  Buster 10.4 "gajuph4pre@yahoo.com" <gajuph4pre@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-28 22:00 +0200
  Re: Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian  Buster 10.4 riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com> - 2020-07-29 01:30 +0200
  Re: Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian Buster 10.4 "Mick Kent" <mkent@blomand.net> - 2020-07-29 02:30 +0200
  Re: Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian  Buster 10.4 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-29 13:50 +0200
  Re: Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian  Buster 10.4 Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2020-07-29 17:10 +0200
    Re: Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian  Buster 10.4 <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-29 17:40 +0200
      [OT]etiquette  was: Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after  installing Debian Buster 10.4 Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2020-07-29 18:00 +0200

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