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

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Mon Jun 24 05:34:51 UTC 2013


On Sun, 2013-06-23 at 17:37 -0400, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> I wonder if any of you have managed to install Fedora 19 beta in
> Virtualbox.
> 
> 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.
> 
> I wonder if anyone else has tested F19 (32bit) on Virtualbox guest

Yes, several people.

> Moving forward, what would be the official rescue procedure to force a
> Linux OS into a "safe" video mode (say, 800x600 SVGA framebuffer)?.

nomodeset .
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