inst.text boot option

breaku...@gmail.com

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Jan 14, 2018, 5:29:58 PM1/14/18

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Qubes refuses to install with graphical installer and I get the mssage that I have to pass the inst.text option at boot. I tried it by appending option=inst.text to the bootloader, but it still tries to do graphical install and then anaconda surrounds itself and squeezes to death.

So how do you get the text mode installer to work ?
Thanks

elbe...@gmail.com

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Apr 12, 2018, 5:19:42 AM4/12/18

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On the line that starts with "linux", write: "inst.text" before "quiet".
Without quotation marks.

Sergio Matta

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Apr 19, 2018, 10:20:51 AM4/19/18

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Em quinta-feira, 12 de abril de 2018 06:19:42 UTC-3, elbe...@gmail.com escreveu:
> On the line that starts with "linux", write: "inst.text" before "quiet".
> Without quotation marks.

I cannot install v4, even v3.2. The same X startup failed. I tested with radeon rx560 and nvidia gtx1050ti. I tried change xdriver=vesa with radeon, nvidia, fglrx but the problem remains. Change the boot command line to use inst.text brings other problem with luks without a passphrase key to encrypt the disk.
I am using my old 4RC3 installation with many problems.
Any ideas? Thank you.

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Teqleez Motley

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Apr 19, 2018, 11:27:19 AM4/19/18

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On Thu, Apr 19, 2018, at 16:20, Sergio Matta wrote:
> Em quinta-feira, 12 de abril de 2018 06:19:42 UTC-3, elbe...@gmail.com

> Any ideas? Thank you.
>

Just a shot in the dark, but regarding workarounds for graphics cards problems:
With Legacy BIOS boot, have you tried to add " nouveau.modeset=0 " on the module code-line right after "quiet"?

Regards,
Teqleez

Sergio Matta

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Apr 19, 2018, 7:01:20 PM4/19/18

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> Just a shot in the dark, but regarding workarounds for graphics cards problems:
> With Legacy BIOS boot, have you tried to add " nouveau.modeset=0 " on the module code-line right after "quiet"?
>
> Regards,
> Teqleez

Thank you Teqleez.
Your idea looks like change something. I tried many times with different ways. The problem is in video install driver. They need to reduce the install size but now it lacks support for some graphics boards. I am using a RC3 install version and it has all drivers on it.
With the RC3 update I did today, now everything is working fine, since I do not need a fresh install anymore :-)

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