On 6 August 2012 06:20, Richard Vickery <richard.vickeryrv(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Dave Burns <tburns(a)hawaii.edu>
wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Richard Vickery
> <richard.vickeryrv(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Dave Burns <tburns(a)hawaii.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> Me confused. I want to try booting the FC17 install disk in lowres or
> >> text mode. To do this, apparently I should enter "linux lowres"
or
> >> "linux text" at the "boot prompt".
> >>
> >> The fc17 install guide
> >>
> >>
> >>
(
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Installation_Guide/ap-...)
> >> says, "To use boot options, enter linux option at the boot: prompt. To
> >> access the boot: prompt on a system that displays a graphical boot
> >> screen, press the Esc key while the graphical boot screen is
> >> displayed. "
> >>
> >> If I hit esc before the "fedora 17 will boot in 10 seconds"
screen, or
> >> while that is visible, I get what seems like a boot prompt - at the
> >> top of the screen it says "boot:" and I am able to type in
"linux
> >> text". But when I hit enter, it replies "Could not find kernel
image:
> >> linux".
> >>
> >> If I hit esc later than that, during the pretty screen with the line
> >> crawling along the bottom, it just switches from that view to the log
> >> from starting daemons.
> >>
> >> Can someone please tell me how to get into text mode? What did I do
> >> wrong?
> >> thanks,
> >
> > I think you are telling it to look for "linux text" and there is no
such
> > filename in the user-group. Try typing your user-name, after which it
> > should
> > - if I correctly understand the problem -ask you for your password.
>
> If that was my problem, wouldn't the error message say something about
> no such username/password, rather than "Could not find kernel image:
> linux"? I am booting the dvd, which has no username for me yet.
>
> If I let the boot proceed without trying to force it into text mode
> and wait for the video mode error message, at that point I can hit
> ctl-alt-f3 and escape into the command line tty. At that point it asks
> for a username, and if I type in 'root' it logs me in without any
> password. I suppose I could proceed with the install, or maybe tweak
> the video setup, at that point, but I don't know what to do.
>
> thanks,
> TDB
>
The problem is that you don't have that image; the OS needs that kernel
image to operate. You may need to re-install, or maybe - I have never tried
this - get that same file from somewhere on the internet, perhaps one of us.
I'm not so sure that the second method will work; perhaps we can get someone
with a lot more knowledge than I have to help.
Something doesn't make sense here, Dave is booting the install disc, I
wouldn't expect there to be any files missing. So far as I can see
from the anaconda documentation "linux text" should work, I can try it
later. What disc is this exactly? Install DVD? Live disc? Anyone know
how the anaconda arguments should work?
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imalone
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