Nice to see I'm not the only one .

Maybe the final dialog could be clarified by adding something like: "Press Ctrl + C to abort and return to the shell." I kinda did that already. From an aesthetic point of view I just thought a button would be better or something like "Rebooting in 10 seconds, press <ok> to exit to s...

This could be something and nothing but I noticed that if you exit setup (straight after selecting your keyboard layout) then start it again tty2 becomes available. I didn't check others because I didn't need to but I know I wasn't able to change tty prior to this.

I'm kind of following on from this topic: an extra console in installer . 1. Instead of just auto-rebooting the system after setup completes, could you give the option to reboot or exit to the shell. 2. Could you include the generic kernel for us raid/lvm/luks users. 3. I'd like the kernel-source an...