GNU bug report logs - #65572
Black screen in installer

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Iku-Tulo Vilutar <ikutulovilutar <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2023 23:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #32 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
To: 65572-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: bug-guix <at> gnu.org, Csepp <raingloom <at> riseup.net>, ikutulovilutar <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#65572: [PATCH v3] doc: Describe black screen issue when
 booting the installer.
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2023 14:43:07 +0200

Pushed as 2890114a708e3a54a14ceb762f0726b013ffdc85.

Csepp <raingloom <at> riseup.net> writes:
> There was a thread about having a dedicated "safe video" option in the
> GRUB menu, like a lot of distros do.  I still think we should do that

Yes, I agree.  It would need a way to make a custom GRUB menu entry that
refers to a Guix System generation, and adding that feature is
complicated because it best worked for other non-GRUB bootloaders too.
If it were added, “safe video” could be described in the same place.

Regards,
Florian
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