Re: [PULL 0/1] qemu-openbios queue 20260707

On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 09:27:08PM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> Ah I see the issue now: you're passing -nodefaults on the command line which
> tells QEMU not to plug any default cards into any bus, however the firmware
> is still trying to access the VGA card upon startup causing the failure.
> Possibly this may have only worked before by accident.
> 
> What you also need to do is use -nographic which leaves the machine as-is,
> but configures the NVRAM such that the console is redirected to the serial
> port. The following modified command line works for me, and avoids the large
> pause during boot:

Ah yes, adding '-nographic' to this command appears to resolve this for
me. Thanks a lot for the solution!

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Cheers,
Nathan