I've just installed Debian 9 into an old Toshiba notebook and everything went fine during the installation:
Installation complete
Installation is complete, so it is time to boot into your new system. Make sure to remove the installation media, so that you boot into the new system rather than restarting the installation.
However, after restarting, the system showed several error messages and then stopped on a dark screen (it is still possible to switch to consoles via alt-ctrl-f2~f6):
[drm:intel_cpu_fifo_underrun_irq_handler [i915]] *ERROR* CPU pipe A FIFO underrun [drm:intel_set_cpu_fifo_underrun_reporting [i915]] *ERROR* pipe B underrun [drm:intel_cpu_fifo_underrun_irq_handler [i915]] *ERROR* CPU pipe B FIFO underrun [drm:intel_set_cpu_fifo_underrun_reporting [i915]] *ERROR* CPU pipe B FIFO underrun Any ideas?
Notebook Specifications
Toshiba Satellite 1135-S1553
- Intel® Celeron® 4 processor at 2.20GHz
- Intel 852GM Chipset
- 1Gb RAM
- 32MB internal Integrated Intel® 852GM video memory
Debian Version
- Small CDs
- debian-9.4.0-i386-netinst.iso
- DVD burnt via Win7
Software selection
(X) Debian desktop environment
( ) ... GNOME
( ) ... Xfce
( ) ... KDE
( ) ... Cinnamon
( ) ... MATE
( ) ... LXDE
( ) web server
(X) print server
( ) SSH server
(X) standard system utilities
outputs and log files excerpts
/var/log/installer# grep EE Xorg.0.log
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown [8.534] (EE) Failed to load module "intel" (module does not exist, 0) [8.535] (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0) [8.538] (EE) open /dev/dri/card 0: No such file or directory [8.538] (EE) open /dev/dri/card 0: No such file or directory [8.538] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section /var/log/installer/syslog
pci 0000:02:04.0: bridge configuration invalid ([bus 00-00]), reconfiguring pci_bud 0000:03:busn_res: can not insert [bus 03-02] under [bus 02] conflicts with (null) [bus 02]) gnome-shell [548]: Failed to allocate texture: Failed to create texture 2d due to size/format constraints apt install xserver-xorg-video-{vesa,intel}
Reading package lists ... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information ... Done xserver-xorg-video-intel is already the newest version (2:2.99.917+git20161206-1) xserver-xorg-video-vesa is already the newest version (1:2.3.4-1+b2). xserver-xorg-video-vesa set to manually installed. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 
startxwhat happens? Doesservice status gdmreport anything? Doesservice gdm restartdo anything for you? Whoops.. nm. Just read you aren't even getting a login prompt.startxfrom console basically enters in a similar 'freezed' dark screen, blinks sometimes and returns to the console. The output I've just added to the original post.