Hi all,
I need some help troubleshooting a booting problem with Debian. I am using Debian 13 on my Dell Inspiron 3558 laptop with Intel core i3 processor. I have been facing an issue lately where the laptop occasionally abruptly shuts down during the very early boot process, I guess when the kernel is getting loaded.
I tried various steps to troubleshoot the issue:
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Edited kernel parameters on the grub configuration to remove the quiet mode and added debug logging. But the issue happens so early during the boot process, journalctl does not capture any log from the failed boots. Most likely the journald service is not even started at the time of the failure.
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I tried reading the logs printed on screen but they do not provide any useful information about the failure. And there seems to be no difference between the logs from an unsuccessful booting vs a successful booting up to that point.
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I tried providing the nomodeset kernel parameter but that hardly seems to make any difference.
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I tried booting Debian 13 from a live usb but that also seems to suffer from the same problem. That makes me believe that the problem is not specific to my installation.
Another interesting point about this is that the laptop never abruptly shuts down after the boot process is over. And the failure happens at a very specific point during the boot process. So that almost makes me think that this is likely a driver or a configuration problem rather than a hardware problem but I couldn't be certain about it.
Any help to troubleshoot the issue would be greatly appreciated. Also please let me know if you need any other information.
Statistics: Posted by subhadig — 2026-02-14 06:40