On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 05:00:23AM -0500, david wrote: > On 04/03/2017 03:22 AM, Geert Stappers wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 02:41:04AM -0500, David Merchant wrote: > >> * What was the outcome of this action? > >>system boots ok but throws errors: > >>nouveau:lots of numbers: firmware: failed to load > >>nvidia/gm206/gr/sw_nonctx.bin (-2) > >>nouveau: gr: failed to load gr/sw_nonctx > >>gr ctor failed, -2 > > > >Boot the computer in rescue mode to avoid start up of graphical mode, > >to prevent the nouveau errors. > > > >In rescue mode get nvidia-detect from non-free installed and run it. > > > > > >Then use the output of nvidia-detect for the next step > > > > The target computer will not boot in ANY mode. As I said, it > freezes almost immediately and hangs forever. Even the "recovery > mode" of the installation tool is severely limited. Can't use apt, > can't copy files, can only use tiny vim to create the blacklist of > the sp5100_cot module. > The target computer will NOT boot on it's own and no tools are > available since there is no "live" version of Debian 9 yet. > In 8.7.1, nvidia-detect shows the actual card, the GTX 960 as I > mentioned earlier. There are 3 or 4 different names of that card > but they all mean the 960.
Back to > >>nouveau:lots of numbers: firmware: failed to load > >>nvidia/gm206/gr/sw_nonctx.bin (-2) Find a way to get that nvidia firmware loaded. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven
