bug#60002: installer console garbled on 1984.is VPS
> I guess you could have selected shell-based installation in the > graphical installer, it just wasn’t visible. once you chose menu based install at the beginning, it's not possible to change your mind and get a shell (without switching virtual consoles, or rebooting). shell based install works fine (when the console text is not garbled). as for DHCP: the VPS provider itself doesn't run a DHCP server on their network. the network must be configured manually.
bug#60002: installer console garbled on 1984.is VPS
Attila Lendvai writes: > their response: "I changed the video mode in libvirt to virtio instead of the > default cirrus." Yes yes, now that you mention cirrus, yhetil.org turns up results: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/36069 Could you test that patch maybe? Well of course it would maybe require the admins to switch you back to cirrus … > 1) i cannot switch virtual > consoles, I guess you could have selected shell-based installation in the graphical installer, it just wasn’t visible. > 2) there's no DHCP on the network, i.e. it requires manual configuration > using a shell. Maybe there’s no DHCP because the graphical installer lets you choose which networking device you want to use. Regards, Florian
bug#60002: installer console garbled on 1984.is VPS
close done > So the admins are using a Web interface to QEMU. Which one? What -vga > > option is it using? their response: "I changed the video mode in libvirt to virtio instead of the default cirrus." this has fixed both the garbling of text, and the resizing of the console to accommodate for the window based installer. maybe it's worth mentioning in the/a troubleshooting section of the doc. i couldn't find anything about it using websearch. my only remaining issue with the installer is that the menu based installation workflow is not possible when 1) i cannot switch virtual consoles, and 2) there's no DHCP on the network, i.e. it requires manual configuration using a shell. but i'll report that as a different issue. thank you, - attila
bug#60002: installer console garbled on 1984.is VPS
> So the admins are using a Web interface to QEMU. Which one? What -vga > option is it using? i'll ask them and report back. > Perhaps when in GRUB, press E to edit the linux boot command-line and > append to it: nomodeset this didn't help. the behavior appears to be the exact same. > IIRC there had been discussions about QEMU Bochs graphics and such, but > I can’t find them. > > > maybe the installer could be extended with something to start a > > temporary shell to configure te network, without the need to switch > > virtual consoles? > > > I don’t understand this. Can others help? let me put this another way: assume that 1) it's not possible to press CTRL+ALT+Fn to switch virtual consoles, and 2) there is no DHCP configured on the machine's network. this means that the installation is not possible, becuse it's stuck at checking for a functional network upstream. if there was a menu entry to start a temporary shell, then i could configure the network in that shell, exit the shell, and press retry in the installer's menu. -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.” — L. R. Knost
bug#60002: installer console garbled on 1984.is VPS
Hello Attila. So the admins are using a Web interface to QEMU. Which one? What -vga option is it using? Perhaps when in GRUB, press E to edit the linux boot command-line and append to it: nomodeset IIRC there had been discussions about QEMU Bochs graphics and such, but I can’t find them. > maybe the installer could be extended with something to start a > temporary shell to configure te network, without the need to switch > virtual consoles? I don’t understand this. Can others help? Regards, Florian
