[Bug 804882] New: Text install does not set grub2 to be text mode
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804882 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804882#c0 Summary: Text install does not set grub2 to be text mode Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Factory Version: 12.3 Milestone 2 Platform: x86 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: roger@opq.se QAContact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0 When installing 12.3 RC1, I had to use text mode because there seem to be issues with my intel graphics chip and grub2 (X works fine). The only problem is that text mode install does not set grub2 to also be in text mode. So, the initial reboot to complete installation did not happen correctly. Also, every boot just went, eventually, to the default OS start. So, I was not able to do things like enter kernel option when booting. Eventually, when I could log in over the network and run yast in text mode, I could configure grub2 to be character based. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install 12.3 RC1 in text mode 2. reboot 3. Actual Results: There is no visible grub2 menu. Presumably it is there. Eventually the default OS boots. Expected Results: Grub in the same mode as the OS install: text In the text mode install, I guess an option to set if grub should be in text mode as well would work. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804882 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804882#c1 --- Comment #1 from Roger Oberholtzer <roger@opq.se> 2013-02-21 06:52:05 UTC --- This is really found in 12.3 RC1. But I do not see where that can be specified in Bugzilla. At least not where this bug was entered. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804882 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804882#c Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |mchang@suse.com |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804882 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804882#c2 --- Comment #2 from Michael Chang <mchang@suse.com> 2013-02-26 08:09:26 UTC --- Hi Roger, There's an option in yast2 bootloader (Loader Options => Use graphical console) which you can disable graphical console to use text mode. Now you have to do that manually as the subject you asked is not implemented. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804882 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804882#c3 --- Comment #3 from Roger Oberholtzer <roger@opq.se> 2013-02-27 11:39:08 UTC --- I saw in the 12.2 install, in text mode, that in some sub-menu you can configure this during install. That seems to work. The thing is that this is not obvious. If you miss it, the reboot during install does not complete correctly and the install is incomplete. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804882 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804882#c4 Michael Chang <mchang@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |snwint@suse.com --- Comment #4 from Michael Chang <mchang@suse.com> 2013-03-13 05:04:18 UTC --- Roger, You should try NO KMS (in F3 Video Mode pull down list) instead of text mode. Reason: The text mode (kernel cmdline textmode=1) tells yast to start in text mode (ncurses based) thus it requires no X windows to run, but the kernel KMS driver still loaded and performs the mode-setting. This way it's just luck to avoid the mess by KMS and X server. The textmode=1 parameter was filtered by linuxrc as it's not standard kernel parameter but only meaningful to installation system. So in next reboot you end up with yast running on X again and problem recurred. Use NO KMS will use nomodeset which completely avoid mode setting by KMS driver and X from running. And since that parameter is a recognized one by linux kernel (aka not installation system specific) it got carried to final installed system (not filtered out by linuxrc). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804882 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804882#c5 --- Comment #5 from Michael Chang <mchang@suse.com> 2013-03-13 05:06:40 UTC --- The problem now is that should we filter out command line parameter textmode=1 or not by linuxrc? I leave the decision to Steffen. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804882 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804882#c6 --- Comment #6 from Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@suse.com> 2013-03-13 11:54:42 CET --- In general, linuxrc filters out automatically all command line options that are for itself. The textmode setting is passed to yast which adjusts the system config accordingly (like runlevel 3 instead of 5). I don't know if the setting ends up more or less directly in sysconfig somewhere. But it's available in yast at least during install time (via /etc/install.inf). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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