Hi all, new to the list... I've had this X13s for a while now, but it's been running Win 11pro. I had looked into running Debian on it and found the instructions for installing it, but those showed using the daily testing/trixie bits, so, I thought I'd wait until Trixie was the stable release, which was this weekend.
I otherwise followed the same set of instructions from the wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Thinkpad/X13s). Went mostly smoothly, but for a few things at the end: 1) "Install additional packages" We're instructed to install: - firmware-qcom-soc - protection-domain-mapper - qrtr-tools - acpi The first one installs, but the other 3 error out as being unavailable packages. OK, maybe they're not needed anymore? 2) Go back to main screen and Continue, which reboots, get the grub screen, tries to load the default and it reboots. I found a thread from May 2023 where someone else reported the same boot loop. The thread starts here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2023/05/msg00022.html His solution:
Something had changed the "debian" EFI boot option to load directly grubaa64.efi instead of DtbLoader.efi.
I added another boot option "Debian-LEM" that loads DtbLoader.efi and I'm now successfully booted into my system using Linaro's kernel linux-image-6.2.0-aarch64-laptops-02306-g9f9a1903a65e (I had previously, while trying to debug the problem, chrooted into my install from the rescue system of the install USB stick from people.linaro.org, and copied that kernel's dtb file into /boot/efi/dtb/f249803d-etc-etc.dtb)
Thing is, I can't get back into even the installer or recovery-mode from the installer image to try and fix anything. Booting from the install image again, twiddling the boot option to include 'arm64.nopauth' and ctrl-x, it does the same boot loop. So far, the only way I've found to get anywhere is to start over fresh, do a restore of Windows, copy the dtb file into place, then boot the debian installer again and eventually wind up back here, and that process takes hours. The people.linaro.org URLs don't work any more, so, I can't use that image to try for redcovery either. Is there something I can do while in grub to get it to boot and then I can fix things after I get in or other suggestions? -- Michael Parson Pflugerville, TX
