On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 02:48:05PM +0200, Rainer Hattenhauer wrote:
>Hm, that bug is marked as CLOSED RAWHIDE. Are you sure that
'nofb'
>is still not mentioned in help? If not them maybe #89722 should
>be reopened.
Sorry, again. Seems that my eyes were covered by tomatos, like we're saying
here in germany. Of cause, it is mentioned in help.
But wouldn't it be better to boot for installation issues in safe state by
default (e.g. using nofb), I think most of the system will work with this
option out of the box (?)
I have no idea what is a "safe state" for most systems or even if
something like that exists. You will have ask somebody else; in
particular folks from Red Hat. Indeed for laptops I encountered
recently using a frame buffer in anaconda seems to screw up things
pretty badly in different ways and 'nofb' comes to a rescue.
There is also a text installation mode but the problem is that if
you try to use it over a frame buffer and that one misbehaves then
text is of no help at all. OTOH the laptot mentioned in #89722 had
much easier time in an initial boot using Knoppix CD although
clearly a frame buffer was also in use. Probably different initial
parameters.
Michal