On 6 June 2013 21:18, Pablo Costa <
modul...@gmail.com> wrote:
> * With BIOS A22, and even upgrading to BIOS A24,
> Qubes-R2-Beta2-x86_64-DVD.iso will hang early on the boot process. Keyboard
> will not respond and the only way out is to push the power button for some 5
> or 7 seconds.
> * Passing "nomodeset" to the kernel helps to reach the point where Xorg is
> launched, although the display is not working (blank screen).
> Control+Alt+Del gracefully reboots the system but I don't know if the
> virtual consoles are available Control+Alt+F1..F6 because the screen keeps
> blank.
> * Passing "nomodeset" along with "2" or "3" to the kernel delivers the VT
> consoles and thus an easy root shell at dom0 although the system is
> obviously not useful except for debugging purposes. Trying to start the
> display manager by systemctl start graphical.target leads to the same point
> as booting with just "nomodeset".