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Re: Installer with Gtk cannot start X due to lack of driver



On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 14:19:48 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote:

> Hi, all
> 
> I download several version of D-I with Gtk from URL like
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/gtk/
> and boot them by Grub4DOS.
> 
> When boot, they complains  that cannot start X due to lack of video
> drivers: vesa, nvidia, intel.
> 
> I tried it on both Intel and Nvidia card.
> 
Sounds to me like you're doing it wrong.  d-i in graphical mode uses the
fbdev X driver, which means it needs a kernel framebuffer driver loaded.
The kernel cmdline arguments passed by the bootloader need to reflect
that.

Cheers,
Julien

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