[BRLTTY] qemu

[Samuel Thibault]

Daniel Dalton, le Mon 06 Apr 2009 09:14:41 +1000, a écrit :
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 12:50:47AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Daniel Dalton, le Mon 06 Apr 2009 08:39:11 +1000, a écrit :
> > > > Did you really request text mode?  By default the debian installer would
> > > > switch to framebuffer mode.
> > > 
> > > How do I request text mode?
> > 
> > By reading the installation manual:
> 
> Ok. I eventually got a qemu screen saying press f1 for help f2 for
> something else right up to f12... Is this good?

Yes, and there you have (again) the documentation about starting the
installer in text mode.  Just append what I said on the command line
_before_ pressing enter.

> It said press enter to boot, so I did.

But you missed typing the parameter to set the text mode...

> It flickered a bit, and after the line that told me it was starting
> syslog, this appears to be the only line on my screen:  640 x 480
> Graphic mode

So it entered framebuffer mode...

> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I gave it 512 mb ram...

When I talked about memory, that was for the Ubuntu liveCD, which needs
quite a lot of memory (512 should be fine). The debian installer is fine
with even 64M.

Samuel