Thanks for the suggestion. I did it with a couple varieties of the media
(live, standard, netinstall), all with the same outcome. However, I did
determine that its something with the display of the grub menu - if I
press buttons a bit (esc and tab) and then press enter, it will start
the installer and then it installs fine. After rebooting, the os works
too. So, it appears to be something with how it's detecting the display
to display the grub menu - too bad it's trying to be fancy instead of
just displaying a text grub interface. Not that it can't be fancy, the
12 menu was graphical, it's just that the text grub menu wouldn't have
an issue regardless.
So, bottom line - there appears to be an issue with display detection in
the installation prior to display of grub. If through some miracle (key
gymnastics) you can get the grub entry selected and run without seeing
it, you can get an installation... ick :).
Help.
Will
On 7/25/25 16:43, Titus Newswanger wrote:
On 7/25/25 15:28, Will Senn wrote:
Hi,
long, long-time user of debian (since the stone age pre 1.0 days). I
wanted to try trixie out on my laptops, but no version of the install
media will boot on my Lenovo's (neither the t430 nor the y500). These
are pretty old laptops, yes, but they run 12 fine and mint and mx and
freebsd, etc.
I have disabled secure boot, tried with UEFI only, UEFI plus CSM,
Legacy only and legacy only at least gets to the grub menu. With any
UEFI setting (which I would strongly prefer), it beeps twice and the
display is blank - not entirely black, more of a charcoal gray, but
no grub menu get's displayed.
I have no experience with those laptops, however, it sounds like you
tried booting that install media on several machines without success?
I've had where my newly loaded installers did not function properly -
maybe I unplugged it before it was finished writing.
It might be worth getting another copy of the installer to see if that
makes a difference.
