Bug 2038

I think this is a duplicate of bug 1321.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

I don't think it's a duplicate, he can use the keyboard on the GRUB screen.

@Mark: this is a known bug in mageia-gfxboot-theme, the workaround is either:
- When booting press and hold Shift, this will take you to a text console, at the prompt type:
text

then press Enter.

OR
- At the GRUB screen, press F6 (Kernel Options), select 'Default' and press Enter, type:
text

then Enter again.

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

Great! Many thanks!

I can run install in text mode although I cannot avoid and still face the problem in https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2034

Assigning to maintainer now that our maintainers database has an entry for
this package. Please assign back to bugsquad@mageia.org in case of a mistake
from me.

CC: (none) => stormi
Assignee: bugsquad => balcaen.john

*** Bug 645 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

CC: (none) => alien

just to mention the problem is still in mga1 final.

also pressing ESC goes into text boot loader and it work from there as well...

Did anybody check whether this bug is still valid for Mga2alpha?

@ Donald

Please set status to ASSIGNED if you think this bug was assigned correctly. If for work flow reasons you can't do that, then please put OK on the whiteboard instead.

CC: (none) => marja11

I will take it for now, but as with the other more technical bugs for this package, anyone with more technical experience would by helpful.

Someone confirming it for now would be really useful.

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED

Still valid for Mageia 2 Beta1

very easy to reproduce:

1. install using DVD
2. press F3 immediately and select 'Text', when you see the graphical menu from the media
3. you see a textbased first part, which is loading program (next stage)
4. you're back to graphical mode

ok, it's worse now

1. install using DVD
2. press ESC
3. type in 'text' and hit the RETURN key
4. it loads the program
5. you immediately get an error:

/bin/unicode_start: /usr/bin/tty: not found

umounting partitions
you may safely reboot or halt your system

it's completely broken now

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Hardware: x86_64 => All
Version: 1 => Cauldron
Severity: normal => major

Looks like we segfault in the Curses module.
I don't have alpha3 to test if it's due to the switch to using udev.

i just tested with mageia 2 alpha3 DVD x86_64:

after loading, the screen refreshes and at the top i get:

exited abnormally :-( -- received signal 6


@tv: is this what you meant?

That means it's not the udev switch that causes it but maybe the perl-5.12 to 5.14 migration.
Note that's a different issue than this BR. Please open another BR

CC: (none) => jquelin

Hello, this one seems fixed no ?
(since we have https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4724 for the installer part)

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

no, there's a workaround to get the text installer, but it's not fixed...

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

*** Bug 5668 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

CC: (none) => Sebastian.Blaziak

Target set to mageia 3, as installer changes are needed.

CC: (none) => guillomovitch
Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 3

all options are here: http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/theme/mageia-gfxboot-theme/trunk/src/

So use F6, chose to default, then change the needed option

F3: text => text ; vga=785 => 640x480 ; vga=788 => 800x600 ; vga=791 =>1024x768
F4: automatic=method:other (only valid for drakx-installer)
F6: apm=off acpi=off mce=off barrier=off ide=nodma idewait=50 i8042.nomux psmouse.proto=bare irqpoll pci=nommconf => Safe Settings
acpi=off => No ACPI
nolapic => No Local APIC

(for the errata)

Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

confirmed on Mga3 RC Live CD (if the live cd actually has the text installer)

i pressed F3 in the grub menu and chose text then chose "install"

Is this bug still valid on Mageia 5 RC Live media?

CC: (none) => qa-bugs

Using the MGA5 RC public

Test case1:

Boot the DVD
Press F3 to select text
Press enter twice.... go to graphical enviroment (bad)

Test case 2:
Boot from DVD (again)
Press the ESC key to get grub text mode
write text in that grub text mode
Get text classical installation

No problems.....

CC: (none) => neoser10

Thanks, closing them.

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

@ Mauricio

I understand Test case 1 went wrong?

If so: maybe there is something in stage1.log ?

Do you happen to still have an install that was done graphically while you chose F3-text? 

In that case, you can find stage1.log in /root/drakx/stage1.log

If you do not have such an install, but Test case 1 does indeed go wrong:

Please reproduce it, and switch to tty2 with Ctrl+Alt+F2 as soon as you see the graphical screen to choose a Language.

Then insert a USB key, run "dmesg" to see whether it is sdb, sdc, or ...? 

Let's assume it is sdd, then do:

mkdir sdd1
mount /dev/sdd1 sdd1
cp -a tmp/stage1.log sdd1/


and attach stage1.log to this bug report

oh, and please reopen it, if test case 1 does indeed fail

Created attachment 6445 [details]
stage1.log from a failed text install when I select text from the graphical grub option F3

I see that does not pass the text kernel parameter

valid 1st round pre-5final

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Summary: Can't select option to install (key f2-6) => Can't select option to install in Text mode with "F3" - "Text" in installer boot menu
Whiteboard: 3RC => 5RC

Text is no longer available when pressing F3, so this is no longer an issue.
Pressing ESC correctly displays a pure text installer. So closing as OLD.

Resolution: (none) => OLD
Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED