Hello! On 11/6/21 17:11, Ken Cunningham wrote: > However, updating the grub.cfg to actually use it is a manual step that I > didn’t > know about/realize I would need to do, so after doing that: > > sudo /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > The system now boots from the new, proper, image and all is well, the radeon > driver is found and used:
This should happen automatically by update-grub which is called after update-initramfs. Not sure why that didn't work for you, it always worked fine for me when I tested it. > My apologies that people coming into this mailing list are probably often > like me, perhaps > not deeply versed in debian/linux as yet, and finding themselves having to do > a bit more No worries. > than is needed compared to just booting Ubuntu onto an Intel system (which I > have four of > at present, for the past several years, and had to do almost nothing to get > them to work). It involves a bit more work because I'm effectively maintaining this port alone and ironing out all these small issues takes quite a lot of time and effort. We're getting there. > Your patience is much appreciated! Thanks. > That is now two PowerPC systems converted to debian, one 32bit, and this one > 64bit. Sounds good. > I have several more to go! Great. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
