On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 09:27:08PM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > Ah I see the issue now: you're passing -nodefaults on the command line which > tells QEMU not to plug any default cards into any bus, however the firmware > is still trying to access the VGA card upon startup causing the failure. > Possibly this may have only worked before by accident. > > What you also need to do is use -nographic which leaves the machine as-is, > but configures the NVRAM such that the console is redirected to the serial > port. The following modified command line works for me, and avoids the large > pause during boot:
Ah yes, adding '-nographic' to this command appears to resolve this for me. Thanks a lot for the solution! -- Cheers, Nathan
