Installing Linuxcnc on new pc Using Debian 12.13 and Linuxcnc 2.9.8 mesa 7i76eu

thanks Rodw,
I will try that I have been doing similar things in terminal and when get so bogged down I just comment them out and move on and will come back to them later.
I appreciate your help,
Thanks again,George

Promise!!! I am hoping that moment is coming soon like any minute I got up to line 197 hal c by commenting out and now I have the stepgen parts. It is amazing that i can have joints 1 and 3 work and o and 2 not work for stepgens. I have checked ini and trivkins and joints all line up correctly shows xyyz and 4 joints but only 2 work with the exact same text in each section???? I will take Rod's suggestions and see if i can get further ahead. One good constilation is I am learning lots all I have to do it put it together before I have a brain anyerism -LOL
Thanks again

I made some headway today! I gave up on chasing ghosts in my existing configuration and decided to start all over again. I did a completely new pncconfig barbones setup without limits spindle or home switches. I was successful in getting a installation free of errors yeh!! I was able to get movement on all axis and that was good but no homing or limits that of course was not very good. Started playing around to get limits going until i totally messed up that installation combined with custom ini and hal files. That didn't work. So I started all over again and tryied with limits and estop and probe. Well non of the pins for those limits existed and at this point i cant get the machine to unlock even with no errors. I commented out beginning error lines starting at hal 34. and commented all of those non existing limits in hal. I have 24v at the inputs 04 thru 09 and .4v when the nc switches are activated. I have attached the new ini and hal file to see if anyone can help figure out what is happening. Thanks to all helpers

What errors do you have?
 

I was at exactly same point yesterday.
Everything runs perfectly until i add the spindle output.
I figured out that the spindle outputs are on the second half of the board which is internally connected by sserial. As I was testing everything on my desk, I just powered the board via the 5V supply. After digging deeper into the manual, I figured out that the field power needs to be applied as well. Some more LED lighted up, board was working

hope this helps

Startiing on line 34 of hal limits not existing pin does not exist. I commented out all six lines after reltating to non existing pins to get thru with no errors. I checked these pins on TB6 04-09 and they all has voltage of 24v until activated then went to aprox .4v.There may be an issue with the board.
Thanks PCW