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  1. Bug #1675453
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 1675453

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1675453] Re: During d-i install of ubuntu-server from mini.iso I get no login prompt

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 04:56:33PM -0000, Łukasz Zemczak wrote:
> Ok, so it seems a few of my previous tests were a bit flawed. It looks
> like vt.handoff=1 does the trick completely for this particular bug. So
> once we switch grub2 to vt.handoff=1 this bug here will be fixed.
> Another thing that needs to be still considered is somehow tweaking
> netboot installs to have 'splash quiet' removed - but that's a separate
> story.

My main concern with this is that AIUI the vt.handoff is a non-upstreamed
patchset in Ubuntu, which has seen some bit rot in the past. We should
probably be looking at how to do this without the vt.handoff patches.