Bug#697442: better experience with wheezy installer
On Sat 05 Jan 2013 at 15:20:06 +0000, Dick Middleton wrote:
> Following my rant I zeroed the partition table and started over.
>
> It all went swimmingly well. Using the net-dist CD.
>
> No problems with xfs or crypto and errors. Also no finger trouble.
Thank you for following up on your experience.
> The only issue is the font on the console is set to 600x480 and not 1024x768
> or even 1280x1024.
TAB at the boot menu and vga=791 or vga=794 on the kernel command line.
> So I don't know what was wrong last night.
I have trouble remembering what went wrong an hour ago. :)
> Before I reinstalled with the net-dist CD I wiped partition table and
> reinstalled with netboot PXE. I missed out the keyboard section again. It
> all installed OK but didn't boot - no grub. In rescue system iniramfs
Where did GRUB install to? Or did you specify where it was to go? I
generally do the latter.
> complained about no kbd. I went back to keyboard section and it immediately
> hung-up. I think there's a problem there.
Not for much longer. Please see bug #697449.
Regards,
Brian.
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