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| bumboks | Walex2 the drives and/or partitions I see on the screen before | 07:48 |
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| bumboks | Uploaded file: https://uploads.kiwiirc.com/files/9b69a6fea7f1429cd425cc02dd5d3121/Screenshot%20from%202021-06-06%2012-38-45.png | 10:43 |
| bumboks | I should be seeing SOME text here right? | 10:44 |
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| Walex2 | bumboks: I have asked you a different question... | 13:52 |
| bumboks | Walex2 you have? I only see the "which devices do you expect to be there?" question | 13:53 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: you cannot answer that question wiht a screenshot. | 13:53 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: which has seems no longer there BTW | 13:54 |
| bumboks | oh, I would expect to see some drives or partitions on that screen | 13:54 |
| bumboks | want me to upload it again? | 13:55 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: but which ones? Which drives and partitions have put into that system? | 13:55 |
| bumboks | i have 2 SSDs | 13:55 |
| bumboks | currently unformatted | 13:55 |
| bumboks | i have tried formatting them too, didn't help | 13:55 |
| bumboks | Uploaded file: https://uploads.kiwiirc.com/files/4d9fd6c8e64c2195b647d0e927ea5612/Screenshot%20from%202021-06-06%2012-38-45.png | 13:55 |
| oerheks | seems like your bios sets those storage as raid. | 13:56 |
| oerheks | raid 0/1 mirrored. | 13:57 |
| oerheks | set it to AHCI, and you can do what you want. | 13:57 |
| bumboks | the first mirror on the list there are 2 HDDs, that's why it's so much larger | 13:58 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: your screenshot is terrible to read, but it paints a curious picture. | 14:01 |
| bumboks | I mean, it's weird right? | 14:01 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: noter that your HDD MD-RAID is level 0 (striped) rather than 1 (mirrored) | 14:02 |
| Walex2 | it could that some devices are listed in black-on-black even. | 14:03 |
| bumboks | yes I know, that's is intentional, but I want the SSDs to be mirrored | 14:03 |
| bumboks | I think that is the case, because I can move up and down the list | 14:03 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: that's crazy. | 14:03 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: not your fault, necessarily, but crazy. | 14:03 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: can you run the installed in "live CD" mode? | 14:04 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: can you run the installer in "live CD" mode? | 14:04 |
| bumboks | does the server installer have live cd mode? i have run the desktop installer in livecd mode | 14:05 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: the problem I can see is that the VGA BIOS of the target system is running in "dark colors" mode. | 14:06 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: the most obvious thing is to boot into "live CD" mode and use the X-Windows based installer. | 14:07 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: there may be system BIOS setting to change the VGA color palette. | 14:07 |
| bumboks | okay | 14:08 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: I don't know whethere there is an option to the installer to change its "ncurses" color palette. | 14:08 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: BTW as another thing I usually recommend strongly never to use full disks, but always to create at least one partition. | 14:09 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: in some cases systems can become unbootable if one uses whole disks. | 14:09 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: in any case you can use the desktop installer with a server, the difference is only in the default set of packages. | 14:10 |
| bumboks | ok thanks | 14:10 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: I usually find it convenient to install a lightweight X environment desktop on servers anyhow, e.g. XFCE, for remote work or wprking at the console. Some people think that is not desirable on servers. | 14:11 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: I have done some web searches: https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/armhf/ch05s03.html | 14:12 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: note the "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk" boot parameter for the installer | 14:13 |
| bumboks | alright I will try that, thanks a lot | 14:13 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: also note that "theme=" parameter. Curiously the only non-default option is "theme=dark" but youd may try that too, as it might be a *readable* dark theme. | 14:14 |
| Walex2 | So I would try in order "theme=dark", then "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk", then use the live GUI and click on the installer icon on the desktop. | 14:16 |
| Walex2 | I usually use the live GUI, where I first open a terminal window, do by hand the partitioning that I want done, and then start the installer and in it just assign the prepared block devices to mount points. | 14:17 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: please let us know, because the color scheme that you have screenshotted is really weird. | 14:18 |
| Walex2 | that is which one worked. Ah also looking at the VGA options in the BIOS... Which system is that? | 14:19 |
| bumboks | is a Gen10 HPE Microserver | 14:19 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: nice box, strange it does black-on-black | 14:20 |
| Walex2 | or dim-gray on black | 14:20 |
| bumboks | I don't see any VGA options the BIOS other than disabling the Embedded Video Connection | 14:34 |
| bumboks | so I'll try the other things you suggested | 14:35 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: how did it go? | 18:07 |
| bumboks | Walex2 I haven't tried them yet. How do I enter those arguments when booting from the iso? | 18:15 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: good question, I can't remember. I think this says "F6": https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions#Changing_the_CD.27s_Default_Boot_Options | 20:25 |
| Walex2 | more precisely: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions#Changing_the_CD_Boot_Option_Configuration_Line | 20:25 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: but also note that "F5" shows an accessility menu with a "high contrast" theme option | 20:27 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: note also this weird story: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions/before--after#Sometimes_the_boot_option_must_be_entered_twice | 20:28 |
| bumboks | F5 and F6 doesn't seem to do anything? The ISO boots straight to the GRUB menu which I think I'll have to edit | 20:36 |
| bumboks | that gives me "unable to initialize frontend: gtk" | 20:37 |
| bumboks | and the theme=dark doesn't appear to change anything about the colors | 20:39 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: you could try to use the command line installer, which is a bit boring with a lot of prompts. | 21:09 |
| Walex2 | bumboks: did you try to boot into live GUI mode? | 21:10 |
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