The mangling does not happen immediately. It happens after the "Installing the base system" step (not sure what the step after that is supposed to be). Here's a pastebin of the preseed.cfg: https://pastebin.com/K7vwkpMu
On Wednesday, March 6th, 2024 at 6:06 PM, Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> wrote: > Hello, > > x11r, le mer. 06 mars 2024 22:39:23 +0000, a ecrit: > > > The machine is PXE booted with the kernel parameters: > > initrd=debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gz ip=dhcp auto=enable language=en > > country=US locale=en_US.UTF-8 keymap=ansi hostname=debian domain="" > > url=tftp://10.0.0.1/preseed.cfg > > > > Console is accessed over VGA. VMSVGA for the VirtualBox tests we've ran and > > a VGA KVM for the tests on bare metal. > > > I still cannot reproduce with unpacking the tarball and running > > kvm -net nic -net user,tftp=$PWD,bootfile=pxelinux.0 -drive -m 1G > > and passing the kernel parameters. > > Does the mangling happen right from the first screen, or after some > steps? > > It could be useful to share your preseed.cfg (take care of removing any > hardcoded password). > > Samuel
