At first boot, holding Esc or Shift still leads me to the FreePbx GUI (loaded from CD drive) screen where I can choose which Asterisk version, video output, and if I want a fully automated installation.
Where there are opportunities to look at editing the install at this point, it doesn’t seem to be an OS install, no clear place to add nomodeset.
I choose fully automatic mode this time, inspection of the options confirm the default password.
I keep pressing shift and the installation proceeds in text mode, but install proceeds in text mode.
After installing item ~650/~750, screen goes blank. I wait.
Then after a snack I press the space bar, and their are some post installation tasks. It finally completes. I boot and enter the default password. I’m in.
Now I have no network connection to LAN. Guess that’s a different mole to whack on a new thread…