![]() ![]() I mean, I know that technology's progressing and all that jazz, but this "new" (to me) laptop is in damned-near pristine condition, despite being over a decade old. USB even on systems which don't have BIOS support for it. Certainly someone has come up with a boot-disc/k that can load-up a menu for booting from e.g. But before wasting *them all* I had a brilliant idea. And I've only got a handful of blank DVDs. Oh yeah "nobody cares" no joke, that's what it said. There was a weird message about an unhandled interrupt, but that wasn't the problem. Then, from there, booting seemed to stop after fsck ran. But I recalled the same from my desktop (and an older version of Jessie, as well as Wheezy?) The end-result being: *install* seems to work-ish, but live-boot is questionable. OK, I can't recall *how* I determined this path, but this is the path I took:įirst of all, the debian Jessie: 8.5.0 live-boot was flakey, to say the least. I'll make it real quick, then go into details, I guess.īlacklist BOTH: 'sonypi' AND 'sony-laptop' modules. I finally have a laptop about the equivalent of (actually slightly lower-spec'd than) the one I invested a Hefty Fortune into over a decade ago, and expected to last me a good decade+ (but didn't due to stupidity). ![]() The cat *seems* to be quite happy about it. Alright! My first laptop in nearly 2 years! (I've been sitting at the ol' desktop since the old one suffered the GPU-deballing fate). ![]()
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