F18 beta experience under VM

[Ed Greshko]

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.

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