B. Zhang wrote: > The installation (console) by default went well. Thank you. > But to restart, surprise, white screen. > In fact, missing the firmware for the graphics card AMD Radeon HD 6470M, which > was not reported by the installer during installation. > It was not easy for a novice to find and solve this problem. > I had to type commands in blind to go to the console and login as root to > install the package firmware-linux-nonfree. (I could also use the CD in rescue > mode)
This is a weak spot in d-i. The installer only prompts for firmware needed by kernel modules loaded during the installation. While discover is supposed to be run during the install to handle installing software needed by other devices on the system, it does not have the ability to load non-free firmware the way the installer can. Reassigning to hw-detect provisionally; I don't know how this problem should be solved. -- see shy jo
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