On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 11:35:31PM +0300, Andrei M. wrote: > In all recent major versions of NetBSD/amd64, incl. NetBSD 9.0 error > notifications from the kernel are forwarded in green colour to the > first vt. In my case it mostly concerns notifications about hardware > probing going on or when a connection change happens to the net card > (I use an ASUS K70ID laptop). It happens every few minutes, looks > terrible from the aesthetic point of view, when you're typing > something and then this breaks your line, even within vi, and can even > be some sort of security threat when it messes up the password prompt. > > It's usually recommended to switch to vt2, vt3 etc. in order to avoid > seeing these notifications. But this is not possible, when you're > installing the OS. Installation menus get broken by this green flood > and then are redrawn below, turning the whole thing into a complete > mishmash. Here's some screenshots: ...
I don't think this was already mentioned--my apologies if it was: "<ctrl>L" helps a lot when I start seeing pages in the installer become disarrayed by the kernel's green output (it refreshes the screen); and I'm not sure this feature is mentioned anywhere in the installer's text. I doubt that's the full-fledged solution you're looking for... however, maybe it'll make a helpful difference until you have an answer that's closer to the mark. <ctrl>L is functional in a signifant portion of the installer. In fact, a quick "thank you" to the installer's authors for having it in there.