Bradley Alexander wrote: > I'm trying to [re]install Debian on my wife's machine, a PIII/800 with 512MB > ram. It has an nVidia GeForce 2 card and a pair of 30GB drives. It was > formerly running Libranet (which is Debian based), with kernel 2.6.11. She > was having some hard to pin down hardware problems (which I think was > memory), as it turned out, and I figured since I had the machine down, I > would rebuild and get rid of the cruft she's accumulated over the last 2 > years or so. > > I tried booting the latest etch installer, and found that when I took the > default at boot (2.6.12), the text was a multicolor, garbled, nureadable > mess. The dialog boxes were fine, but any text to the screen was trashed. I > tested the 2.4 install, and the text was okay there. So I downloaded the > sarge installer, and the same thing happened (though I have not yet tried the > 2.4 install yet.) Booting Kanotix, which is 2.6.11-based as well as INSERT, > which is also 2.6 gives me a normal display. > > Can somone tell me why this is happening only with the 2.6 kernel and only on > the Debian installer cd? I am transferring data to another drive, but I will > try vga=ask at startup to see if it helps.
The installer uses the kernel framebuffer for all text display so that it can use UTF-8 for translations, you can try booting with debian-installer/framebuffer=false to disable that. -- see shy jo
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