On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 05:51:03PM +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: >W dniu 20.04.2020 o 17:38, Steve McIntyre pisze: >> Hey Marcin! >> >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 05:36:30PM +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: >>> W dniu 20.04.2020 o 16:43, Steve McIntyre pisze: >>> >>>> Try the image at >>>> >>>> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/arm64-gi/ >>> >>> Booted VM with it. Debian installer started on serial port still >>> despite selecting 'graphical install' in grub menu. >>> >>> Graphical display in meantime displayed only blinking cursor. >>> >>> Maybe it was because on aarch64 framebuffer is available after >>> 'virtio_gpu' kernel module gets loaded so d-i starts too early >>> to notice it. >> >> Does /dev/tty0 show up in /proc/consoles in your setup? We might need >> to tweak that yet... > >~ # cat /proc/consoles >ttyAMA0 -W- (EC p a) 204:64 >~ # > >Syslog: > >Apr 20 15:41:17 entropy-source: haveged not needed: rng detected >Apr 20 15:41:18 reopen-console: Looking at console ttyAMA0 from /proc/consoles >Apr 20 15:41:18 reopen-console: Adding ttyAMA0 to possible consoles list >Apr 20 15:41:18 reopen-console: ttyAMA0 is preferred >Apr 20 15:41:18 reopen-console: Adding inittab entry for ttyAMA0 >Apr 20 15:41:18 reopen-console: Restarting init to start d-i on the console(s) >we found >Apr 20 15:41:18 init: reloading /etc/inittab >Apr 20 15:41:18 init: starting pid 261, tty '/dev/tty4': '/usr/bin/tail -f >/var/log/syslog' >Apr 20 15:41:18 init: starting pid 265, tty '/dev/ttyAMA0': >'/sbin/debian-installer' >Apr 20 15:41:19 debconf: Setting debconf/language to en >Apr 20 15:41:20 main-menu[284]: INFO: Falling back to the package description >for brltty-udeb >Apr 20 15:41:20 main-menu[284]: INFO: Menu item 'localechooser' selected >Apr 20 15:41:21 debconf: Setting debconf/language to >Apr 20 15:41:23 main-menu[284]: INFO: Menu item 'localechooser' succeeded but >requested to be left unconfigured. >Apr 20 15:41:23 main-menu[284]: INFO: Falling back to the package description >for brltty-udeb >Apr 20 15:41:25 main-menu[284]: INFO: Falling back to the package description >for brltty-udeb >Apr 20 15:41:25 main-menu[284]: INFO: Menu item 'di-utils-shell' selected > >Just before d-i started on serial line there was some message >about missing framebuffer.
OK. Can you edit the grub command line and add "console=tty0" before starting please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed?
