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Head_on_a_Stick wrote: 2022-07-03 17:46 How exactly did you attempt that? Please post the exact command(s) used along with any configuration files.

During the install the installer asked where I wanted to install GRUB - I chose a USB drive rather than the internal drive where the I installed Debian.
EDIT:
I will try again with the way you suggest.

I am experimenting with a security technique I heard about which is to put the MBR on a removable USB drive. The OS itself will be encrypted on the internal drive but to boot the OS one would need to physically insert the USB drive. I installed GRUB on a separate USB but cannot boot the OS from it or from the internal drive. So how do you install GRUB on a different drive from the OS and still be able to boot ?

I am testing Bookworm netinstl. (my daily driver is Bullseye)
After the installation is complete and I reboot the internet connection is down. I have tried this on both a test laptop with WiFi and on a test PC with ethernet. The only software installed during the install process is ssh. I did not have this issue a couple of months ago with Bookworm or ever with Bullseye during testing and after it went stable for sure. Since I build my OS from the ground up I want as little as possible installed ...

Never mind - after posting I found my answer:
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=58799

This question is really about virtual hardware on a VM so I may be in the wrong place . . . :?

I have installed Debian bookworm for testing/play in Virtualbox and would like to install the Guest Additions CD image.
The problem is when I try to open the Autorun Prombt I get a error message "Cannot find the autorun program"

I have tried to manually tried to execute the .sh and .run programs from /media/cdrom0 as root and get permission denied even though the files are executable. It may have ...

I am now running cinnamon 5.0 - not 5.2 but better than 4.8.
I have moved from a VM and now testing it on bare metal - so far no issues.

For whatever it's worth I am running Cinnamon 5.0 on Bookworm with no bugs and have done a bit of tweaking.
P don't know what the difference may be but I did not install Cinnamon during the install process. I installed Debian netinstl and then installed lightdm and cinnamon using apt install --no-install-recommends cinnamon
majpooper@1150z:~$ inxi -Fxz
System:
Kernel: 5.15.0-2-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.6 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid

https ...

THX much - I think I have a general idea what to do.

sunrat wrote: 2021-11-30 05:14 That said, it's playing Russian Roulette to install anything from sid or testing on stable and pray nothing else breaks.

Agreed - which is why I am testing this in a VM . . . . yeah, it looks like it has already broken a few things - but again in a VM so . . . . . .

I have made some progress on this - I can get cinnamon 5.0 installed which will work but now to figure out pinning. I have a general idea but I am still a little (well a lot) confused. I only want 1 package from bookworm so it should not be hard. If someone has done something like this it would be nice to know how they got it to work. In the mean time I will keep on researching and testing.

I am doing some testing in a VM with Debian 11.
I would like to install Cinnamon 5.2 (the sid package)
I understand the difference and the reasons for stable vs testing but I would like to see how this newer version of the Cinnamon DE does in stable. The problem is I am stuck installing the .tar.gz package. Usually I can install these with not too much hassle but I can not find an install instruction .txt or the path to use the ./configure command after extraction.

2009 era MacBook (Debian 11)

Refurbished Lenovo T400 (Debian 11)

HP TouchSmart 310 all in one (Debian 12 test mule)

HP Pavillion 1150z (Debian 11 daily driver)

VM (Debian 12 testing)

FreewheelinFrank wrote: 2021-10-16 19:10 rt2860.bin is in firmware-misc-nonfree. Have you got it?

https://packages.debian.org/buster/firm ... sc-nonfree

THX much - that was the missing piece - in my case
https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/fi ... sc-nonfree

I am pretty sure I have covered all the bases but can't seem to get my wi-fi up and running in Bullseye although it ran with no issues in Buster.
System: Kernel: 5.10.0-9-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6
Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)

Network: Device-1: Ralink RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 port: e000 bus ID: 06:00.0
IF: wlp6s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit ...

My solution may help someone else with this issue as I ran into this with a Debian 11 Bullseye installation:

First I checked the solutions recommended in this thread:
$ sudo apt install -y firmware-ralink
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'firmware-misc-nonfree' instead of 'firmware-ralink'
firmware-misc-nonfree is already the newest version (20210315-3).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not ...

FF-esr is a pain
Here is a little script I use to install Firefox on Debian.
This comes from a bigger script written by a member of the Bodhi forum to install the Bodhi DE on Debian 11 but it will install Firefox as well. This is just the Firefox install portion.
# Script Begins Here
# Alternatively, bullseye repositories contain firefox-esr (extended service release version)
# and current chromium packages.
# Firefox (current Mozila stable version from debian "unstable" repository)
echo ...

Here is the solution:
edit /etc/default/grub and add reboot=pci don't forget Many thanks to rene over at the MINT forum for the solution even though this is not a Mint install but we are all in the Debian family.

THX - I have been to the first link already - the others are more about how to install Debian which is not the issue but I perused through them anyway. The installation went fine and everything seems to work fine when the system is powered up (cold boot). It is Restart (warm boot or reboot) that hangs. It looks like it is shutting down everything OK - get a lot of green OKs then some other output but it is so fast I can't tell what is really happening - And then the screen is kind of backlit and ...

Just installed Bullseye on a Lenovo IdeaPad 100. when I reboot it hangs to a blank screen. I have to poweroff - then power it back on.
I have set the BIOS to Legacy boot mode not UEFI. Tried a few other tings I have found - editing GRUB etc. - no joy.

Any ideas

MrEen on the Mint forum helped with this - even though it was not a Mint issue.
This solved it.

Okay, you added options snd-hda-intel model=generic to a file in /etc/modprobe.d

I'd like you to try changing that to this:

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options snd-hda-intel model=mbp81

Reboot and test after that. While that's specifically for a Mac 8,1 instead of Mac 7,1, I'm hoping the 7,1 simply requires the same fix.

Here ya go although I do have two nagging thoughts though;
1.) Did I jack something up on the initial install as NVIDIA sound supposedly works OOB on Debian ? - at least up until Buster.
2.) I am getting out over my skis in that I am trying to do this on a Debian version that is still in testing and the NVIDIA drivers haven't been tested/addressed yet?

sparky@MacBook:~$ sudo dmesg | grep firmware
[ 6.515335] platform regulatory.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware regulatory.db
[ 6.515560 ...