On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 12:05:54PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 14:42:27 +0100 > Andrei POPESCU <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Vi, 11 feb 22, 15:24:55, Charles Curley wrote: > > > > > > 1) The graphics are terrible. Both graphical and text mode are > > > scrunched into the top third or so of the screen, with two copies > > > across the top. They are damn near unreadable. > > > > That's likely because your graphic chip is not properly recognized > > and the OS is using some low resolution. That image is displayed by > > the hardware 1:1 on the physical pixels of the screen. >
I would not have done it this way, myself. As ever, other people, other requirements and ways of thinking. Looking quickly, it looks as if the Yoga has 1600 x 900 so something might have got confused. I'd have plugged in an external display and done it that way, expert text mode only and used the unofficial non-free firmware .iso. Definitely text mode only to start with. It's an Intel chipset, so Intel firmware likely needed. > Right. But changing from UEFI to legacy boot helped that situation. Go > figure. > BIOS mode sometimes gives a larger display: I'd never tell it to use anything other than UEFI given the vintage of the laptop. > > > > > 2) How do I tell it how to pre-seed? In booting I never get access > > > to the boot command line. > > > > Sorry, can't imagine what you mean here. Pre-seeding is a function of > > the Debian Installer, which (as far as I recall) is always waiting > > for some input at the first menu. There should be an option to get to > > a command line by pressing some key. > > Right. All of these remarks refer to d-i. Sorry I wasn't clear on that. > > Yes, there should be an option. It wasn't present when I booted to > UEFI. D-i went directly to a GUI menu, not the text mode to which I am > accustomed. > Hit advanced options and you get the option for text mode install / expert etc. It may occasionally come up initially as almost a box within a box in UEFI mode but that's normal. > I got the text mode when I changed to legacy support, hit the Help > option, and entered my command line stuff there. > > > And, for the record, an interesting occurrence: d-i came up with > /dev/sdaX (I think 2??) mounted on /media. Oops. It usually picks up > the USB stick I usually have the preseed file on. I umounted and > mounted /dev/sdc1, and was able to load my preseed file and continue. > > That might be an artifact of having the extra USB stick there at disk evaluation time. > -- All the very best, as ever, Andy Cater > Does anybody read signatures any more? > > https://charlescurley.com > https://charlescurley.com/blog/
