Name the upstream cause of the Debian 13 BIOS hang: Debian bug #1111240

The known-gaps entry, decision log, sample comment and builder comment
blamed the host; the cause is trixie's GRUB config ("terminal_output
gfxterm serial" with a serial console and no video device), reported
and reproduced upstream and still open. UEFI remains the default for the
reason recorded; bookworm images are noted as unaffected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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state at all; answering that with delete-and-recreate is too drastic,
so the next poll decides.
- **KVM guests boot UEFI by default, secure boot off.** Found on the
first real host: Debian 13's generic image hangs after GRUB under
SeaBIOS regardless of CPU model or seed, and boots under OVMF. Every
first real host: Debian 13's generic image hangs in GRUB under SeaBIOS
on a headless VM (Debian bug #1111240: `terminal_output gfxterm
serial` with a serial console and no video device) regardless of CPU
model or seed, and boots under OVMF with the serial console working.
The alternatives were a virtio console (loses the kernel's serial
output) or a video device the VMs have no use for. Every
current distro cloud image supports UEFI, so it is the default and
`firmware: bios` is the per-image escape; libvirt's firmware
autoselection (`<os firmware="efi">`) keeps the OVMF path out of the