Bug#976807: debian-installer: Bullseye d-i Alpha3: qemu ramfb and virtio-gpu are unusable for graphical installation
On 08/12/2020 10:33, Ryutaroh Matsumoto wrote:
> I tried to use Debian Bullseye arm64 d-i Alpha 3 to install Bullseye
> to a QEMU disk. I tried -device ramfb and -device virtio-gpu-pic
> for graphical installation by d-i Alpha 3. But neither of them were
> used by the Alpha 3 installer and text-based installation begun.
> The full commands for starting qemu-system-aarch64 is as follows.
> Host Debian Linux is ARM64 Bullseye, so I used -enable-kvm.
When I run your command, I get a new QEMU window showing the TianoCore
logo and then GRUB menu on the ramfb. I can select "Graphical Install"
and it goes on to show a blinking cursor on the ramfb, and a text-mode
installer on the serial0 (can switch from the "View" menu). Is that the
same as what you're seeing?
To actually get the installer to launch on the framebuffer, I have to
add console=tty0 to the GRUB menu entries manually (press E, add it
next to "quiet"). Can you try that?
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