x86_64 2/29 Rawhide

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Sat Mar 1 03:09:19 UTC 2008


Dave Jones (davej at redhat.com) said: 
>  > > Gibberish is still printed while Anaconda is loading.
>  > 
>  > Yeah, this is the "the kernel oopsed, the output gets mangled with the
>  > way that newt sets up the terminal"
> 
> This has been bugging me for a while.  Anyone know if there's a byte
> sequence for 'end of unicode , reset terminal' that we could
> print before the kernel starts dumping output?

... but, the vt is normally in unicode when the kernel oopses, without issues.
Does newt/slang set it to a *different* mode?

Bill




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