Thanks a lot Lennart, > I think it is a console problem. > > Interestingly, if you don't use -nographic, it works fine with the > emulated graphical console.
the host is console only and when I tried, I got SDL initialization failure. > And yes it is a console problem. Doing this works: > > boot: install console=ttyPZ0 > > Then it works fine. > > I found that here: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/PowerPC/qemu doh I thought of a console issue but didn't found this one. Also this happens on the sid mini.iso where console= isn't taken into account. But mini.iso is built differently, maybe this is the reason. F.
