Public bug reported:
Since grub2 now starts Linux with the console in graphics mode by
default (gfxpayload=keep), in order to get a text console, something
must explicitly switch the VT to KD_TEXT mode. For a full boot, this is
handled by plymouth when it exits; in the initramfs, there is nothing
that fulfills this function. This means that booting with
'break=top|modules|premount|mount|mountroot|bottom|init', unless also
explicitly changing the gfxpayload setting, will result in an initramfs
prompt that you can't see. (Unless you give up waiting for the prompt
and boot a second time; then the recordfail handling will cause the next
boot to be in text mode!)
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/panic/console_setup looks like the
logical place to handle the switch to text mode, along with all the
other console setup. We need a C program that lets us do the actual
video mode switch, however. The kbd source package includes a
'totextmode' utility that's not built by default. We should probably
build it and integrate it into the console_setup panic script.
Providing totextmode would let us boot with gfxpayload=keep by default
in recovery mode as well.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: keyboard-configuration 1.57ubuntu27
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 1 22:22:32 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: console-setup
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (8 days ago)
** Affects: console-setup (Ubuntu)
Importance: Medium
Assignee: Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Status: Triaged
** Affects: kbd (Ubuntu)
Importance: Medium
Assignee: Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Status: Triaged
** Affects: console-setup (Ubuntu Oneiric)
Importance: Medium
Assignee: Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Status: Triaged
** Affects: kbd (Ubuntu Oneiric)
Importance: Medium
Assignee: Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Status: Triaged
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric running-unity
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break=foo boot option incompatible with gfxpayload=keep
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