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Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

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On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 21:03:45 -0500, nsrxnst wrote:
> my Debian install has never been ideal: the GUI is spotty, [...]

> upon selecting the appropriate option from grub, manually or automatically, it begins the boot process, displays errors too fast to comprehend, and the screen goes to a cursor, then black. repeated power button long-presses seem to be the only thing that brings it back to life, but only so long as I don't try to boot the installed os.

Since you said there's a GUI, it sounds like X (or Wayland) is trying
to start, and failing.  So the first thing I'd do is boot without the
GUI.

Assuming you use GRUB (I don't know whether a "MacBook pro 2014" is an
amd64 system), you should be able to interrupt the boot sequence, press
the 'e' key to edit the boot parameters, and add

    systemd.unit=multi-user.target

to the kernel parameters.  I think you can also shorten this to just

    2

but I haven't actually tried that.

If this gets you to a console login prompt, then you can login on the
console and try to figure out what's wrong.  Everything should be
working except the GUI, unless there's file system damage.

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MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting nsrxnst <nsrxnst@bruttocarattere.org> - 2024-12-06 03:10 +0100
  Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-12-06 03:50 +0100
    Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-12-06 06:00 +0100
  Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting nsrxnst <nsrxnst@bruttocarattere.org> - 2024-12-06 03:50 +0100
    Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting eben@gmx.us - 2024-12-06 04:40 +0100
    Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-12-06 10:50 +0100
      Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-12-06 17:40 +0100
        Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting nsrxnst <nsrxnst@bruttocarattere.org> - 2024-12-06 18:10 +0100
        Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting nsrxnst <nsrxnst@bruttocarattere.org> - 2024-12-07 17:30 +0100
  Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting eben@gmx.us - 2024-12-06 04:10 +0100
  Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-12-06 05:40 +0100
    Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting nsrxnst <nsrxnst@bruttocarattere.org> - 2024-12-06 18:20 +0100
      Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-12-06 20:30 +0100
        Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-12-06 21:30 +0100

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