20.04 not get login prompt - have to hit ALT F2

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 at 16:26, Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello - It says
>
> SeaBIOS (version xxxx)
> Machine UUID xxxx
>
> iPXE http etc...

All that is from the firmware so far. (Or the emulated firmware; same thing.)
>
> Booting from hard disk
That's maybe GRUB?

> /dev/vda5 Clean.

That's normal. Well, the device name isn't, but it's a VM, so OK.

If this makes sense, it sounds like it "thinks" it has a GUI and so
the splash screen (I think it's called "plymouth") does not restore
the console into text mode properly -- it is "expecting" the GUI to
take over.

> I then removed "quite splash" from the /etc/default/grub
> ran grub-update
> rebooted and I got a login on the main F1.
> So thanks for the suggestion.

Oh, great! Glad it helped! :-)

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