Re: Lenovo S205 boot

2020-08-11 Thread Andrew Cater
I've got a similar vintage Thinkpad x130 next to me: firmware-linux-free firmware-linux-nonfree firmware-misc-nonfree and it all works well. UEFI should then more or less just work. On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 9:23 AM Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 09:57:47AM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrot

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

2020-08-11 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 09:57:47AM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > It's a AMD CPU-GPU package, I've documented the hardware in > the wiki as I already pointed out earlier: > https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Lenovo/ideapadS205/wheezy I've updated that page with some more information. For on

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

2020-08-11 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 01:19:46PM +1000, David wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 09:48, Russell L. Harris wrote: So is my processor AMD or Atom? The best way to answer this question is to run the command cat /proc/cpuinfo That prints about thirty lines; here are a few: processor: 1 vendor_id:

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

2020-08-11 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 01:19:46PM +1000, David wrote: > On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 09:48, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > So is my processor AMD or Atom? > > The best way to answer this question is to run the command > cat /proc/cpuinfo > > and perhaps share its output with us here. It's a AMD CPU

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

2020-08-10 Thread David
On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 09:48, Russell L. Harris wrote: > So is my processor AMD or Atom? The best way to answer this question is to run the command cat /proc/cpuinfo and perhaps share its output with us here.

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

2020-08-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 09:34:01PM +, Andrew Cater wrote: Aha - it might be one of the strange generation of machines (way back) that had 32 bit UEFI/BIOS and a 64 bit capable Atom processor - maybe back as far as the Sandy Bridge series ... a long time ago anyway. Use, specifically, the Debi

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

2020-08-10 Thread Andrew Cater
Aha - it might be one of the strange generation of machines (way back) that had 32 bit UEFI/BIOS and a 64 bit capable Atom processor - maybe back as far as the Sandy Bridge series ... a long time ago anyway. Use, specifically, the Debian i386/amd64 multiarch netboot to install this and it works and

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

2020-08-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 05:38:52PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 05:52:10PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: If going back to i386 is an option for you, the department of workarounds has an option. Again, at this point, my only hope for the machine (other than to toss it in

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

2020-08-10 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 05:52:10PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 07:04:13PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > so far I can only confirm that the grub installation fails with > > both stable and testing. It seems something is at odds with writing > > the efivars. I did not y

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

2020-08-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 07:04:13PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: so far I can only confirm that the grub installation fails with both stable and testing. It seems something is at odds with writing the efivars. I did not yet get around to try again if I can switch the installation back to using grub-

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

2020-08-04 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 10:04:18AM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 04:38:20AM +, 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

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

2020-07-30 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 04:38:20AM +, 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/ideap

Re: Lenovo S205 boot

2020-07-29 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-07-29 21:38, 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 grub dummy failed, but the boot process terminates with the grub> prompt.  I tried the ls command: grub> l