Text Console on MacBook Pro (Debian)

cburkins

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I installed Proxmox on a 2013 MacBook Pro. Works reasonably well. But can't get the text console working (I prefer the text console as underlying OS doesn't need any desktop env)

Here's the process I followed:
  1. Couldn't boot from proxmox USB key
  2. So I installed Debian (standard) instead
  3. Text console was configured and working fine with "servername login:"
  4. Installed proxmox
  5. Now the console is no longer working. Just says "/dev/mapper/servername--vgroot....." on the console. It's still text only, but there's no login prompt anymore

Can anyone suggest a possible cause ?
 
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Contents of /etc/default/grub

Code:
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Proxmox Virtual Environment"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="text"


# Disable os-prober, it might add menu entries for each guest
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true


# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"


# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
GRUB_TERMINAL=console


# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480


# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true


# Disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"


# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
 

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