[Bug 1530530]

[Timo Jyrinki]

Created attachment 680175
result from test iso 7

The memory layout is shown, but only the image shown in the attachment
(below memory layout) is what's gotten after that. Waiting or pressing
Esc does not change anything. That is, only the diagonal lines
background that was also shown with test iso 6 (aside from top left
corner that had other info), with nothing else.

Note that while the background is drawn immediately, any characters
outputted are v-e-r-y slow to output, so any timing assumptions may be
wrong. As mentioned at https://johnlewis.ie/alls-well-that-braswell/ -
if one would have a full screen of text output, it might take a full
minute to draw. Think of a 300bps modem line. With short and few lines
like with test iso 6, it only took maybe 10-20s or so though.

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Title:
  Installer doesn't show up on some Chromebook

Status in gfxboot-theme-ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in gfxboot package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in gfxboot-theme-ubuntu package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I downloaded Ubuntu Wily 15.10, then copied into an USB drive in order to use that to install Ubuntu on my Chromebook Pixel 2.
  After selecting the drive to boot from, I only get a terminal that shows up the following lines:

  graphics initialization failed
  Error setting up gfxboot
  boot:

  Same happens with any *buntu ISO image ( I tried KDE and XFCE as well).
  At this point, I tried to download the  Debian8 ISO image and I noticed that the installer doesn't recognize the video size, too but then asks for the user to manually select a suitable video format from a list of options. >From that point on, I was able to install Debian on the chromebook.

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