Re: Debian 8.5.0 iso on qemu vm

[Frederic Bonnard <frediz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Thanks a lot Lennart,

> I think it is a console problem.
> 
> Interestingly, if you don't use -nographic, it works fine with the
> emulated graphical console.

the host is console only and when I tried, I got SDL initialization failure.

> And yes it is a console problem.  Doing this works:
> 
> boot: install console=ttyPZ0
> 
> Then it works fine.
> 
> I found that here: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/PowerPC/qemu

doh
I thought of a console issue but didn't found this one.

Also this happens on the sid mini.iso where console= isn't taken into account.
But mini.iso is built differently, maybe this is the reason.

F.