[SOLVED] Problem installing on an Acer Aspire 315-23

theIneff · 2021-04-04 12:07:36

Hello everyone.
I'm currently trying to install devuan beowulf 3.1.0 on an Acer Aspire 3 315-23.
I tried creating the live-usb both with the old school method (namely dd-ing the iso file on the usb drive)
and the cool kid-method (namely using refracta2usb to create the bootable live-usb).

Currently I'm facing the following problems.
Both the usb's don't boot up with secure boot, shouldn't grub be signed to boot up with secure boot? It seems strange
especially since ubuntu LTS live-usb seems to be able to boot with secure boot.
Nevertheless, disabling secure boot I'm able to boot up the system but the live doesn't start the X-server,
it seems it isn't able to load the graphic driver.

The laptop has a ryzen 3500U with an integrated radeon vega 8 as a graphic adaptor.

Please feel free to ask for any additional information.
Any help is much appreciated.

dice · 2021-04-04 12:14:38

What medium did you download and copy to USB ? What were the commands?

Last edited by dice (2021-04-04 12:15:26)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2021-04-04 13:49:29

theIneff wrote:

shouldn't grub be signed to boot up with secure boot?

It is. The Devuan installer uses the grub-efi-*-signed package for the UEFI bootloader. What actually happens when you try to boot the ISO? What do you see?

theIneff wrote:

the live doesn't start the X-server,
it seems it isn't able to load the graphic driver.

I'm sure the driver (amdgpu) is fine but your hardware needs the firmware-amd-graphics package to start X.

fsmithred · 2021-04-04 14:54:58

The desktop-live isos already have firmware-amd-graphics installed. Maybe the version from backports is needed. I don't have an easy way to test that right now. And debian wiki suggests that this is not the problem. (4.19 is new enough)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2021-04-04 15:11:26

fsmithred wrote:

the version from backports is needed

Yes I think the backported firmware may be required. The Ryzen 3500U was released 2020-01-06 but the stock AMD firmware package is from 2020-01-14 so it probably isn't supported by that.

fsmithred · 2021-04-04 15:21:10

I'm going to update my backports test iso today and will post the link later.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2021-04-04 15:27:23

My buster-backports ISO image includes the backported firmware so the OP could load that up and check

lspci -k | grep -iA2 'vga\|3d\|display'
dmesg | grep firmware

It doesn't include X but if the amdgpu kernel module & graphics firmware is loaded then it should work.

theIneff · 2021-04-05 13:05:07

dice wrote:

What medium did you download and copy to USB ? What were the commands?

I downloaded the last iso from the devuan website.
About the commands used, as I said before I created the first usb-live with

dd if=beowulf.iso of=/dev/sdb

while for the second one I used refracta2usb.

theIneff · 2021-04-05 13:07:48

Thank you all for all you kind answers, I'll try to make a new live-iso with the backports modules,
hopefully this will solve the problem.
Fingers crossed I'll keep you updated!

theIneff · 2021-04-05 13:47:57

Sorry I missed this part of the post.

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

theIneff wrote:
shouldn't grub be signed to boot up with secure boot?
It is. The Devuan installer uses the grub-efi-*-signed package for the UEFI bootloader. What actually happens when you try to boot the ISO? What do you see?

Basically the UEFI-system displays an (irony)informative message(/irony) "Secure Boot Fail" and an image showing a lock.

theIneff · 2021-04-13 15:25:40

Updates: I finally installed my loved devuan. As you suggested I had to modify the live-usb to boot,
but that wasn't enough I had to disable the secure boot.

Anyway now I have a fully functioning devuan system, hence the problem is solved.
Thanks to everyone for the help.

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[SOLVED] Problem installing on an Acer Aspire 315-23

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