Bug 1321

Summary:	First screen doesn't accept any keyboard input. Can't select text mode, or alt kernel.
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Dave Hodgins <davidwhodgins>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	Mageia 1
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	mageia-gfxboot-theme	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Dave Hodgins 2011-05-18 06:06:13 CEST

Using mageia-dvd-1-rc-i586.iso, the first screen starts gfxboot on any keypress,
including escape, f1, etc.  This makes it impossible to select a text mode install,
or an alternate kernel (required for installing on VirtualBox on a single processor
system).

This test was using an actual dvd with a ps/2 keyboard, on an i586 system.

Comment 1 Ahmad Samir 2011-05-20 02:25:16 CEST

"startx gfxboot" as in it starts the installation or start the GRUB graphical menu?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Ahmad Samir 2011-05-20 02:25:44 CEST

Source RPM: (none) => virtualbox

Ahmad Samir 2011-05-20 02:25:54 CEST

Component: Installer => RPM Packages

Comment 2 Dave Hodgins 2011-05-20 05:05:13 CEST

I've burned the iso to a physical dvd, and booted the system from the dvd.

The first screen that shows is a text screen with the title "Welcome to Magiea Install Help", with a list of boot options, "text, linux, linux vga..." and
near the bottom, "F1 help", "F2 Advanced help".

No matter what key is pressed, it shows gfxboot followed by
"Initializing gfx code ...".  The screen then switches to graphical mode,

The screen is visible for about 3 seconds, as it loads gfxboot from the dvd.

This is in preparation for install on the real hardware.

Running under virtualbox, from the iso on the hard drive, the screen shows
for only about 1 second.

This is the installer, not a virtualbox problem.

Dave Hodgins 2011-05-20 09:57:37 CEST

Component: RPM Packages => Installer
Source RPM: virtualbox => (none)

Ahmad Samir 2011-07-06 04:45:42 CEST

Source RPM: (none) => mageia-gfxboot-theme

Ahmad Samir 2011-07-06 04:45:49 CEST

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

Comment 3 Ahmad Samir 2011-07-06 04:48:51 CEST

Looking at this again, does bug 2038 comment 2, work?

Comment 4 Dave Hodgins 2011-07-06 22:46:55 CEST

Yes.  Adding text to the kernel option does give me a text installation.

I wanted to try the text install, to see if it would help with bug 44, but
the mkinitrd still gets killed as it takes more than 10 minutes under
VirtualBox.

Closing this bug as Resolved/WorksForMe.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME