Forcing F19 to 'vga mode' + borked install after Virtualbox guest additions on F19

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/24/13 05:37, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> I wonder if any of you have managed to install Fedora 19 beta in Virtualbox.
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> I did, and all was working well... until I installed the Guest Additions trying to get better performance, and I ended up runing my VM, now I get scrambled video.
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> I wonder if anyone else has tested F19 (32bit) on Virtualbox guest
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> Moving forward, what would be the official rescue procedure to force a Linux OS into a "safe" video mode (say, 800x600 SVGA framebuffer)?.
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> My trouble setup includes F19 Linux as Virtualbox guest (32 bit F19 beta), Win7 SP1 64bit host, AMD-V enabled.
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> Here's what I get after installing the guest additions...
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> Screenshots:
> http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/6610/rsmt.png
> http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/3827/0wp2.png
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> In the OS/2 world, things were easy: ctrl-alt-f1, and from the pre-boot menu, selecting V for "Boot to VGA mode"
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> In the Linux world,however,developers think that making things more complicated is actually "progress", hence the involution from grub1 bootargs to this grub2 insanity...
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> http://www.intdblog.com/2009/09/grub-2-graphical-boot-tips-to-set.html
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> Any step by step guide for old geeks with ADD? ;)
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> First of all I'd like to know if I'm the only one to experience this, and second, any ideas as to how to fix it...
>
> Thanks in advance.

Running both F19/32 and F19/64 (latest builds) with Guest Additions installed.  Host, however, is F18/64.


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