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Installing Debian on a DELL Inspiron 5515 Laptop

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Installing Debian on a DELL Inspiron 5515 Laptop

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TL;DR - I have a DELL Inspiron 5515 laptop which includes an AMD Ryzen 5500U CPU with an on-die AMD Ryzen GPU. I have attempted to both launch the installer as well as the live image, for both Debian 11.3 and Debian testing, but I am having trouble getting past the initial GRUB boot menu.

I am using the iso flashed on my USB flash drive to boot my Inspiron 5515 laptop. I have disabled Secure boot in my BIOS. The boot mode is set to UEFI.

I see the GRUB menu on the laptop's display as well as the loading kernel and loading initrd messages. But the screen doesn't update after that. The screen doesn't go blank either. I do however see the USB flash drive activity light blink, which does indicate the system is attempting to boot.

If I wait roughly a minute, press the window key, type terminal, hit enter and then do `sudo reboot`, and hit Enter - I do see the laptop rebooting. This just confirms that the OS does boot into the GUI, but somehow doesn't configure the primary laptop display correctly.

I also attempted including kernel boot params like `nomodeset`, `noacpi`, `acpi=off`, `amdgpu.blacklist=yes` but I do not see anything beyond the initial GRUB boot messages on the laptop's display. I see the exact same issue with both Debian 11.3 and Debian testing images - both live as well as installer. With the installer, there is no option to launch the terminal, hence can't reboot. But otherwise, the result is identical.

I also attempted other live images like Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and also a Majaro image. Both of them were able to boot into the OS successfully without any changes to the kernel boot parameters.

I am guessing, this is something to do with the combination of the kernel config used by Debian and my laptop's hardware configuration. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks!

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Re: Installing Debian on a DELL Inspiron 5515 Laptop

#2 Post by Hallvor »

Use the unofficial installer with firmware included?
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Re: Installing Debian on a DELL Inspiron 5515 Laptop

#3 Post by TheTuxdude »

Thanks, the unofficial installer which includes the firmwares did the trick. Was able to boot the live image and kick off the install :)

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