> 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
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
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
> 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
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.
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