On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 04:37:54PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Monday 16 February 2026 at 15:41:47, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:
>
> > I thought I mentioned that when installation finishes and I open
> > a terminal, it does not have access to the apt-get command.
>
> So, do you mean that the machine has fully booted, offers you a login prompt,
> and you can log in as root using a password (or perhaps log in as another user
> with a password, and then become root using su or sudo)?
>
> Please confirm that the prompt you get is not:
>
> grub rescue>
>
> and it is also not:
>
> (initramfs)

Anthony, i meant that when installation finishes and __before__
the first boot, I do Ctl-Alt-F2 to open a terminal. I do no see
howt to access apt or dpkg from it in order to load missing
package.

When I do boot, I get the GRUB menu, something about loading the
kernel and initram disk. Then comes the message I quoted. It
does not say ERROR and I do not get to a grub> prompt.

I worry that my MB GPU chip is dead and so I have a vidio card
loaded in a slot . The module for itr is not present

I also note that I intalled a different operating system (EasyOS)
on an extermal USB disk and it boots just fine.

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     Haines Brown