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installer should have a no-graphics boot option

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From: raingloom <raingloom <at> riseup.net>
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
Cc: 54945 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54945: installer should have a no-graphics boot option
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2022 19:48:52 +0200

On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 19:31:15 +0200
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de> 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)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de> 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 uvesafb isn’t a panacea.
> > >[…]  
> > Hmm, it did end up working, even without the amdgpu trick. Finally
> > had an excuse to try the TUI installer.
> > I guess we can close this for now, but I still think that a safe
> > graphics mode could be a good idea.  
> 
> Is there reason to believe installer’s graphics don’t work on some PC?
> 
> Regards,
> Florian

I have laptops with fried GPUs that still somewhat work with nomodeset.
For rescue images, a no-graphics or nomodeset graphics mode is
definitely useful, because graphics is often the reason booting is
broken.

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