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installer should have a no-graphics boot option

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Message #29 received at 54945 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: raingloom <raingloom <at> riseup.net>
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
Cc: 54945 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54945: installer should have a no-graphics^W nomodeset boot
 option
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 01:53:23 +0200

On Mon, 18 Apr 2022 16:50:02 +0200
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 07:48:52PM +0200, raingloom wrote:
> > 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?  
> > 
> > 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.  
> 
> I presume this would need changes to the API described at `info
> "(guix)Bootloader Configuration"` to generate each boot.cfg menu-entry
> repeatedly with different boot options,
> 
> or it would need a custom copy of grub-bootloader with said changes to
> boot.cfg generation,
> 
> or a new feature to, as you wrote, include multiple operating system
> fields in the same image.
> 
> Anyway, I wouldn’t be implementing it.  I will close this bug report
> in a few days.
> 
> Regards,
> Florian

Okay so I'm doing some more experimentation and a lot of times the
installer really does not show up. It certainly shows up more often
when I add nomodeset and if I remember correctly I may have been using
nomodeset during the previous succesful installs too.

So IMHO this should be kept open.

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