Subject: bug#60002: installer console garbled on 1984.is VPS

From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 21:54:01 +0100

Attila Lendvai <[email-masked]> 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