On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 04:38:20AM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On an older Lenovo S205 on which I never have managed to get Debian > running, I did a netinstall of > debian-bullseye-DI-alpha2-amd64-netinst.iso
Uh it's been a while since https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Lenovo/ideapadS205/wheezy But lately I repurposed that for some test and had Alpine installed, so in general it's still well supported by Linux. Maybe I managed some time next week to give it a try with Debian again. > grub dummy failed, but the boot process terminates with the grub> > prompt. I tried the ls command: > > grub> ls > (proc) (hd0) (hd0,gpt3) (hd0,gpt2) (hd0,pt1) > > and I am able to boot manually by typing in grub commands: > > grub> root=(hd0,gpt2) > grub> linux /vmlinuz root=dev/sda2 > grub> initrd /initrd.img > grub> boot Ok so the grub issues are still there one way or another. Maybe you can take a look at what got generated in /boot/grub/grub.cfg > The boot now proceeds, but the stream of messages terminates with the > line: > > IPV6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): enp2so: link becomes ready Ignore it, probably link local auto configuration. Nothing to worry about. > and the GUI interface does not start. Did you install a complete desktop environment? Sven