On 09/06/2016 11:03 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 6:07 AM, Jobst Schmalenbach
<jobst(a)barrett.com.au> wrote:
> Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-23-10.iso
> USB based DVD
> Lenovo Yoga
>
> Description of problem:
> Originally I tried to boot to rescue mode on a Lenovo Yoga that has Ubuntu installed.
I wanted to start rescue mode, then wipe the ubuntu install by formatting the partitions
(/ and boot using mkfs.ext4) and replace Ubuntu with Fedora 23.
You're best off letting the installer delete these partitions because
it'll do a proper teardown and wipe all the signatures for each layer.
Leaving these signatures around can cause problems later.
>
> So I inserted the Fedora 23 DVD, wait for the bios boot menu to appear, select the
DVD drive with inserted Fedora 23 and boot to that. When the grub menu appears I select
tab and change the kernel line to have "rescue" at the end, delete the
"quiet" so I can see what is going on and add "vag=771".
>
> Just after the "Started D-Bus System Message Bus" it stops:
>
> "Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked. See sulogin(8) man
page for more details.
>
> As this is "rescue mode" and the idea of rescue mode is to be able to
access anything that is on the computer even with a messed up password it is tricky.
There is a Troubleshooting submenu, and an option Rescue a Fedora
installation. Pick that. And then when you get to the text menu, just
don't have it assemble whatever it finds, and you'll get to a shell
prompt instead. I have no idea what vag=771 means...
I think he means "vga=771" (800x600 8-bit color)
>
> How reproducible:
> I have tried this on three computers:
> 1: a beefy, selfmade workstation that has Fedora 22 installed on the local hard
drive
> 2: a Dell XPS 13, that has Windows installed (but UEFI disabled)
> 3: Lenovo Yoga that has Ubuntu 16.04 installed (UEFI disabled)
> all of them have the same issue
>
> Additional info:
> It does not matter what setting UEFI boot is set to, I tried this with every possible
setting in the BIOS that was given to me by the different manufacturers, I could not get
pass the "root account is locked"
I would start by not including vag=771 as a boot parameter.
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