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Bug#606110: installation-report: gtk installer fail to start with PXE boot of Dell Latitude D505



Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> (2014-03-02):
> [Cyril Brulebois]
> > If you still have access to this machine, does the wheezy gtk
> > installer start fine? Otherwise, lacking access to such a machine,
> > I'm tempted to close this bug report.
> 
> I still have access to the machine at work (it is one of my collection
> of test laptops).  I'll retry the wheezy installer, but vaguely
> remeber the problem exist there too.  Anything in particular I should
> test?

Yes, try passing vga=788. Failing that, you're probably going to lack a
framebuffer, and X won't be able to start. You would then have a
scrolling log on vt1 in which you should be able to see a “(EE) no
screens found” line.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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