LO100 Virtual KVM & Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS)

[Paul van Berlo]

Hi,

has anyone recently tried to install Ubuntu 10.04 server via the LO100 Virtual KVM? When the textmode installer starts the output is garbled (only on Ubuntu, anything else I tried is fine). This probably has to do with vga modes, but I tried them all and simply can't get it to show the installer properly. I know this is an Ubuntu issue, but if anyone knows how to solve this, that would be great!

I already tried adding vga=771 to the boot options (as suggested on the net after searching a bit), but this doesn't work. I tried most other modes aswell, to no avail.

Thanks.

-Paul

[Jimmy Vance]

Try vga=normal. If it's still a valid kernel srgument, try adding nofb to turn off frame buffers

[Paul van Berlo]

None of those options change the result. I tried vga=normal, and almost all other vga= options, I tried booting with nofb, nomodeset. I even tried booting with all of those set. The screen is still garbled.

Any other ideas?

[Paul van Berlo]

Okay, for anyone running into this issue - this is indeed a framebuffer issue. However, nomodeset/nofb etc doesn't work. You will have to pass 'vga16fb.modeset=0' as a boot parameter - this solves the issue!