Hello Dan,

Dan Zulla dijo [Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 11:35:23AM +0200]:

Dear Debian Friends,

I have reached out to a member of the @debian.org community who was
displayed on the website as a skilled engineer for the Installer, yet he
advised me to go on the mailing list,  So I am.

I acquired a rather cheap laptop, a Samsung Galaxy Go with LTE, and that
was about 300$. It is a nice piece of hardware, and anyone should be able
to work on ARM64 with that price point and that comfort. I am well aware
performance of the chip is mediocre, and compiling Debian is going to take
a while.

FWIW, my main laptop for the last year has been a Lenovo Yoga C630,
which is also an ARM64 system. Let me tell you that I'm more than
happy with it, although I am more than aware it will never be a
fast compiling beast. And mine has an earlier CPU than yours! You will
find it to be quite snappy for non-intensive use.

I hope, though, you got the 5G version, as 8GB RAM is quite a
difference over 4GB RAM.

(...)
Are you available to be motivated .. to potentially advise? The Bootloader
works. As soon as you try to run the installer, textual or graphical,
crash. Not a commented crash. Just a total nuke of the CPU and reboot. Or
just uncommented fail to switch into graphical model. (We should work on
that, if that is the case.)

I cannot provide much help in this regard, but I can point you to a
group of people who most probably will. There is a group for
supporting ARM64 laptops under different Linux distributions at:

https://github.com/aarch64-laptops/

Particularly, they have a slightly modified Debian installer available
at:

https://github.com/aarch64-laptops/debian-cdimage

It is, yes, mostly geared at the Lenovo offerings. But it's a step in
the right position!

You can also join via IRC, at #aarch64-laptops in OFTC
(irc.debian.org).

Do you have any insight or experience, or idea, about why Grub works?
Ubuntu image boot displays something about being unable to establish
graphics output mode, low-level wise. I am a high level programmer getting
started low-level. I don’t know what that means. The display driver?

Well, I'd venture that Grub works because it is not Linux! It is a
completely independent, much easier system, and works by using UEFI as
its operating-system-of-sorts (which is provided by the
firmware). Linux wants to control hardware much more closely than
Grub.

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