Command-line Install on Minimal CD tries to boot graphically

[Pablo Piaggio]

Bug #700686 hasn't been fixed in here:

Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" Minimal CD 19MB (MD5: cc1591035877c317fdef7f4ebf1662b9, SHA1:d86f78c8343009e57b0ecda14592e76802ce1ec4) available at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD

If you do a Command-line install, you'll get a graphical boot.

Regards.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I was unable to recreate this using an Oneiric mini iso from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/ and choosing Command Line at the boot menu.

[Pablo Piaggio (papibe)]

I'm glad that the Oneiric Minimal CD is free of this bug. However, please note that this bug is about 10.04 LTS.

Regards.

[Pablo Piaggio (papibe)]

>I'm glad that the Oneiric Minimal CD is free of this bug. However, please
>note that this bug is about 10.04 LTS.

I'm sorry, I meant to say 11.04 as in the original report.

[Pablo Piaggio (papibe)]

Not trying to be a nuisance, but here's another person that had the same problem: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1836985

[Pablo Piaggio (papibe)]

Even if this bug skipped 11.04, it seems that it came back to 11.10. Check this:

[Pablo Piaggio (papibe)]

Even if this bug skipped 11.04, it seems that it came back to 11.10. Check this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1871494

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Glen A. (glen-84)]

Duplicate of bug #761830?

[Greg Williams (greg2lapa)]

This bug exists in Vivid (ubuntu 15.04)

[brandb (brandb909)]

This bug still exists in 16.04

[Kelvin Middleton (kelvin-middleton)]

This bug still exists in 16.10

[Marcel (marcelmah)]

And still in 17.04...

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

It seems that this is caused by the splash+vt.handoff boot options. Apparently they are on by default, and the server cd uses a preseed to shut it off. The mini iso it seems does not do this. I discussed it in #ubuntu-devel, and there seemed to be consensus that either the option should default to off, and if you install one of the -desktop packages, it switch it on, or more likely, the vt.handoff machinery just needs ripped out and we run X.org on tty1 to avoid screen flicker like other distributions do.