On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 09:19:48AM -0500, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:
> The GRUB menu shows the netinst on key only if I replug the key.

That's normal.

>
> The Grub menu is then
>
> debian Samsung 1 TB SSD
> UEFI: VendorC
> UEFI: VensorC ... partition 2
>
> I have always done an expert installs but instead now try a normal
> install of daedalus on the 1 TB SSD
>
> As preamble flashes by something about genirq flags mismatch;
> flags mismatch

Don't worry about it.

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> I try to boot the 1 TB disk and get:
>
> /dev/nvme0n1p2: clean ...
> INIT: version 3.06 booing
> INIT: No inittab.d directory found
> Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel S
> Starting hot-plug events dispatcher: udevd.
> Synthesizing the initial hotplug events (subsystems)...done
> Waiting for /dev/ to be fully populated...[ 5.301262 ]
> platform regulatory.0: firmware failed to load regulatory.db (-2)
> [ 5.3011313 ] firmware_class: see https:/wiki/debian.org/
> Firmware for information about missing firmware
> [ 5.301394 ] platform regulatory.0: firmware: failed to load
> regulatory.db (-2)
> [ 5.316633 ] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: firmware: failed to load
> iwl-debug -debug-yoyo.bin (-2)
> [ 5.316695 ] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: firmware: failed to load
> iwl-debug -debug-yoyo.bin (-2)
>

Try installing the wireless-regdb package. You may also need to enable
the non-free sources, and install firmware-linux-nonfree.

Greg


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