bug#54945: installer should have a no-graphics boot option

2022-04-18 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 07:48:52PM +0200, raingloom wrote: > On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 19:31:15 +0200 > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 05:32:38PM +0200, raingloom wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 22:44:58 +0200 > > > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote: > > > >[…] >

bug#54945: installer should have a no-graphics boot option

2022-04-16 Thread raingloom
On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 19:31:15 +0200 "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 05:32:38PM +0200, raingloom wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 22:44:58 +0200 > > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote: > > >[…] > > > I believe uvesafb makes the graphics work on any > > > x86_64 or x86

bug#54945: installer should have a no-graphics boot option

2022-04-16 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 05:32:38PM +0200, raingloom wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 22:44:58 +0200 > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote: > >[…] > > I believe uvesafb makes the graphics work on any > > x86_64 or x86 machine, so no save-graphics GRUB entry is needed. But > > maybe I’m wrong and uvesaf

bug#54945: installer should have a no-graphics boot option

2022-04-16 Thread raingloom
On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 22:44:58 +0200 "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 01:36:36PM +0200, raingloom wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 08:55:43 +0200 > > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote: > > > I’ve previously had such issues with AMD Radeon GPUs, so we added > > > it to

bug#54945: installer should have a no-graphics boot option

2022-04-15 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 01:36:36PM +0200, raingloom wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 08:55:43 +0200 > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote: > > I’ve previously had such issues with AMD Radeon GPUs, so we added it > > to the blacklist in gnu/system/install.scm: > AFAIK it's a Radeon machine, so that may

bug#54945: installer should have a no-graphics boot option

2022-04-15 Thread raingloom
On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 08:55:43 +0200 "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 02:17:49AM +0200, raingloom wrote: > > Disclaimer: the last time I used an ISO for installing Guix was > > before there was a graphical installer, so I'm not sure what it's > > expected to look like n

bug#54945: installer should have a no-graphics boot option

2022-04-14 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 02:17:49AM +0200, raingloom wrote: > Disclaimer: the last time I used an ISO for installing Guix was before > there was a graphical installer, so I'm not sure what it's expected to > look like now. > > Anyways, I tried booting the latest release on a netbook, it failed > ar

bug#54945: installer should have a no-graphics boot option

2022-04-14 Thread raingloom
Disclaimer: the last time I used an ISO for installing Guix was before there was a graphical installer, so I'm not sure what it's expected to look like now. Anyways, I tried booting the latest release on a netbook, it failed around/after KMS. Kernel seemed to lock up. No panic, no usable visible l