Fedora 11 fail because of Anaconda :(

[Jeremy Katz]

On Saturday, May 09 2009, Bill Davidsen said:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> writes:
>>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> Hmm, as a boot option you mean?  Doesn't seem to do anything at all,
>>>> I still see just the same behavior as with no option.  Thanks for
>>>> suggesting something though ...
>>>>
>>> Using the "vga=ask" option on the boot line should give you something 
>>> like the attached, from FC11snap+rawhide as of 24 hrs ago.
>>
>> [ shrug... ]  I repeat that it has no visible effect, at least not
>> when trying to boot yesterday's rawhide boot.iso on my ancient
>> Powerbook G3 laptop.  Should I be filing a bug, or is that option
>> only supported on Intel-ish machines?
>>
> If you didn't get a warn that the option was unknown, then I would file a 
> bug. I no longer have any Power or SPARC hardware, ran out of floor space 
> and time to use.

vga=ask is x86 only (well, more accurately, things which implement a
vga-like text console only... iirc, it works on ia64 too).  And the
kernel hardly warns of every option it doesn't understand, otherwise you
wouldn't be able to pass arbitrary things via the kernel command line

Jeremy