On Sun 19 Mar 2017 at 17:50:50 -0700, Dean wrote: > Thank you for your guys' help. I assumed that meant I had to download and > install the packages manually after installing through the live CD and went > that route.
More or less. You only need firmware-atheros. You can get it through activating the backports archive (believe it or believe it not, there is a wiki page on this) or by downloading the package and installing it with 'dpkg -i'. > While trying to install Debian again, I have run into another possibly > unrelated problem. After going through most of the install procedure, I get > an error message while trying to install the boot loader: > > "Executing grub-install failed" > "This is a fatal error" Only related in that your hardware might be not be handled by a Jessie installer very gracefully. > Where can I access error logs that tell me what actually happened, because > this is really vague and I don't know what I'm supposed to do with this. The > drive was wiped during the partitioning process and I have no operating > systems on the laptop (although I have tried to install Debian multiple > times at this point). Switch to a console with ALT-F2. 'more /var/log/syslog'. -- Brian.
