Description of problem: There is an unreadable font with several messages running prior to the launching of anaconda. Because of this you are unable to know what devices are discovered, what drivers are loaded, or what may have failed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL 5 beta1 M4 & M5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start fresh install 2. Select "linux askmethod" 3. NFS install Actual results: Unknown messages stream by Expected results: Intelligible messages should stream by Additional info:
What type of hardware is this on?
Are you seeing this on the blue background of anaconda? If so, this is more than likely the lock detection code finding a potential problem and causing the console to get a little nutty.
For comment #1: I'm seeing this on ia32, EM64t, and AMD64. For comment #2: There has been some information in the blue background that does interfere with data entry. While entering the NFS information there is a message regarding ipv6 that was not configured. However, this BZ is for messges that are in a strange font before anaconda is launched while the installer kernel is coming up. These would typically tell what drivers and devices are being seen while this kernel is starting.
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in release.
This is no longer seen in beta 1 Milestone 7.
Closing out based on comment 5. Please reopen if you experience further problems.