From 100a41f7fd8c5af4731ec1f477ad3da9324a961c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Hughes <ryan@heyoodle.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:33:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Type the console bootstrap blind and gate it on SSH

A VNC viewer that resizes the guest framebuffer makes the console font
unreadable to OCR, which stranded the bootstrap at its login-prompt gate.
Getty is reliably on the spare TTY and SSH coming up is the real success
signal, so type the login blind and retry the whole sequence up to three
times; a failed pass just leaves getty re-prompting.

Also print the resize-safe viewer invocation whenever a VM starts: a
resize during early boot can wedge virtio-gpu before the system is up.
---
 bin/omarchy-iso-test | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bin/omarchy-iso-test b/bin/omarchy-iso-test
index 4b25a8e..8a0677f 100755
--- a/bin/omarchy-iso-test
+++ b/bin/omarchy-iso-test
@@ -202,6 +202,11 @@ start_vm() {
   local disk="$1" serial="$2"
   shift 2
 
+  # A viewer that resizes the guest display breaks the console driving: OCR
+  # cannot read the shrunken font, and a resize during early boot can wedge
+  # virtio-gpu before the system comes up.
+  log "Watch (do not resize): vncviewer -RemoteResize=0 127.0.0.1:5905"
+
   qemu-system-x86_64 \
     -cpu host -enable-kvm -machine q35,accel=kvm \
     -smp "$(nproc)" \
@@ -885,40 +890,39 @@ EOF
   (cd "$BASE_DIR/www" && exec python3 -m http.server "$HTTP_PORT" --bind 127.0.0.1 >/dev/null 2>&1) &
   HTTP_PID=$!
 
-  local waited=0
-  while true; do
+  # Type the login blind: a VNC viewer that resizes the framebuffer makes the
+  # console font unreadable to OCR, and the real gate is SSH coming up anyway.
+  # Getty re-prompts after a failed login, so a whole-sequence retry recovers
+  # from typing before the prompt was ready.
+  sleep 15 # give first boot time to reach getty
+  local attempt
+  for attempt in 1 2 3; do
     press ctrl-alt-f3
+    sleep 8
+    press ret # settle a half-typed prompt from a previous attempt
+    sleep 2
+    type_text "$GUEST_USER"
+    capture_console "success-first-boot-03-console-username"
+    press ret
+    sleep 3
+    type_text "$GUEST_PASSWORD"
+    press ret
     sleep 4
-    ocr_screen | grep -qi "login:" && break
-    ((waited += 8))
+    type_text "curl -fsS http://10.0.2.2:$HTTP_PORT/bootstrap -o /tmp/bs && bash /tmp/bs"
+    capture_console "success-first-boot-05-bootstrap-command"
+    press ret
 
-    if ((waited >= 300)); then
-      capture_console "failure-first-boot-console-timeout"
-      echo "Timed out waiting for a console login prompt" >&2
-      return 1
+    if wait_for_ssh 120 "failure-first-boot-ssh-timeout-$attempt"; then
+      capture_console "success-first-boot-06-bootstrap-complete"
+      kill "$HTTP_PID" 2>/dev/null || true
+      HTTP_PID=""
+      press ctrl-alt-f1
+      return 0
     fi
-    sleep 4
   done
 
-  type_text "$GUEST_USER"
-  capture_console "success-first-boot-03-console-username"
-  press ret
-  wait_for_screen "Password" 60
-  type_text "$GUEST_PASSWORD"
-  capture_console "success-first-boot-04-console-password"
-  press ret
-  sleep 3
-
-  type_text "curl -fsS http://10.0.2.2:$HTTP_PORT/bootstrap -o /tmp/bs && bash /tmp/bs"
-  capture_console "success-first-boot-05-bootstrap-command"
-  press ret
-
-  wait_for_ssh 360 "failure-first-boot-ssh-timeout"
-  capture_console "success-first-boot-06-bootstrap-complete"
-
-  kill "$HTTP_PID" 2>/dev/null || true
-  HTTP_PID=""
-  press ctrl-alt-f1
+  echo "Console bootstrap did not produce SSH access after 3 attempts" >&2
+  return 1
 }
 
 # Get a freshly booted system to a running Hyprland session, typing at the