F18 beta experience under VM

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 16:37 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 12/03/2012 04:31 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 16:02 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> >> On 12/03/2012 03:19 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 01:10 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> >>>>> Getting to the first anaconda UI screen took a good 1-2 minutes. I 
> >>>>> wasn't sure if the VM had locked up as I had no indication of work being 
> >>>>> done. I can see people being frustrated with the wait and rebooting a 
> >>>>> few times and then posting on @test or @users that F18 won't install.
> >>> That's not normal, it should only take a few seconds after dracut
> >>> concludes (during which you can see that Stuff is Happening). Did you
> >>> file a bug?
> >>>
> >> I just tried this with a Vbox VM.
> >>
> >> After hitting "return" on the initial page the screen when white for
> >> about 15 seconds.  Then some lines were printed to the screen.  The
> >> last one informing that /dev/sr0 had been mounted read-only.  It then
> >> sat there for another 5 minutes before the Welcome screen appeared
> >> with the language selection dialog displayed.  During the 5 minutes
> >> the activity indicator remained on for the DVD.
> >>
> >> I just filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882828 with
> >> the description above since I don't have a clue at the moment how to
> >> gather additional information.
> > Ah - I was forgetting about this: the default option is to check the
> > medium first, right? That accounts for the delay. I believe there's
> > already a bug for showing progress during media check.
> >
> > If you pick the option that skips the media check, does that resolve the
> > delay?
> 
> Yes, and I closed by BZ as a dup of
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874486
> 
> I didn't realize, and it isn't apparent to my old eyes, that the
> second line on the initial screen on booting the DVD is the default
> when you hit return.  I'm used to the "default" being first in the
> list.

Yeah, I seem to recall we've been round that merry-go-round before, and
somehow it's happening again. The first entry should indeed be the
default, so we should re-jig the order, I think.
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