# Oh no! That crash has eaten my Linux installation! **URL:** \ **Category:** Linux\ **Created:** [May 1, 2024, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/oh-no-that-crash-has-eaten-my-linux-installation/50122 "2024-05-01T14:05:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Martin\_Pavelek](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/martin_pavelek/32/34291_2.png) [@Martin\_Pavelek](https://community.frame.work/u/Martin_Pavelek)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 7:05pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/oh-no-that-crash-has-eaten-my-linux-installation/50122/3 "2024-05-01T19:05:17Z")
I had two of these hard crashes about a week ago, and yes, one of them left the machine unbootable (but salvageable by booting from a flash drive and running `fsck.ext4`), and the other ate my Chromium profile and one git repository (which resulted in one directory that can be only renamed but not deleted; but I can’t be bothered to reinstall…) I had a 9 day streak without those hard crashes after updating to BIOS 3.05, so I would recommend you to do that first. But you will also need to update your AMD GPU firmware, because neither stable, Trixie or Sid have a version that is recent enough to fix all known issues. I thought I updated my firmware weeks ago, but after one more “soft” crash yesterday (GPU crash only, i.e., the system is still running and accessible over SSH, so does it not result in FS damage), I found out I needed to update `initrd` to actually make the replaced firmware load during boot, as described here: > [@\[RESPONDED\] Framework 16 (with GPU) - Debian 12 - Crashing on window resize](http://community.frame.work/t/responded-framework-16-with-gpu-debian-12-crashing-on-window-resize/45694/15): > > Hi everybody, I want to put a fine point on this issue/resolution as I ran into this issue myself. I’m running Debian 12 (Bookworm) on my Framework 16 with an AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics. On install, I got the following error in my dmesg: amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: firmware: failed to load amdgpu/gc\_11\_0\_1\_mes\_2.bin (-2) Any programs that used GPU would cause a my GUI to freeze and crash, often forcing me into TTY. I saw Firefox-ESR and Wayland both trigger this issue. The general err… Today I updated the “InstallingDebianOn” guide for AMD 7040 series Framework, you can take a look at that as well: > **[InstallingDebianOn/FrameWork/Laptop13/AMD\_7040\_Series - Debian Wiki](https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/FrameWork/Laptop13/AMD_7040_Series)** > > How to install Debian/Linux on a generic computer --- _[View the full topic](https://community.frame.work/t/oh-no-that-crash-has-eaten-my-linux-installation/50122)._