serandrzej wrote:djk44883 wrote:If you did an upgrade and not a new installation... why "I did format"???
at first I did regular upgrade (I followed the whole procedure update, dist upgrade, change source.list update.. etc - I probably followed every step and in the right order, on my other laptop it worked but there are only 2 systems and no separate /, /home)
but it failed, no GUI, so I installed buster from CD on top of lame buster which was already there. this ofcourse did not produce expected result, then I installed from CD several times, to no avail, no GUI.
oh my! You might have considered asking for assistance... before you, uhm, well here you are now.
/etc/mtab does show /home is mounted. When your system does boot "into /" Do you have any messages? Have you tried startx ?
the last line in mtab -
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tmpfs /run/user/0 tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=346460k,mode=700 0 0
This is above me, but I don't think that's you logged on your system as a regular user. I think you're user 1000, maybe -
tmpfs /run/user/1000 tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=815544k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
since I'm not clear on this, I don't know where to go yet. No just constantly re-installing probably won't fix something if you don't know what you're fixing.
No busybox? Not in maintenance mode? Not using root password?
One more thing, if you re-installed, then the boot menu comes from the debian installation now? or has it always?