hello, the nv driver doesn't work on my rig. how can i startup the fedora core 2 graphical installer using vesa instead of nv? i tried: linux video=vesa but when the graphical installer started, the screen was still all messed up (just like when using nv).
thank you.
actually, where can i find a list of all the boot options available for the fedora core 2 installer? i'm looking for something similar to knoppix's "cheatcodes".
thank you.
Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
hello, the nv driver doesn't work on my rig. how can i startup the fedora core 2 graphical installer using vesa instead of nv? i tried: linux video=vesa but when the graphical installer started, the screen was still all messed up (just like when using nv).
thank you.
Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
actually, where can i find a list of all the boot options available for the fedora core 2 installer? i'm looking for something similar to knoppix's "cheatcodes".
I'm not sure about *all* the boot options. Many of them (e.g. the nodma one) go to the kernel. Some of those are undocumented, but most can be found in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt in the Linux source code. Generally, these are the ones that you need to get the kernel booted.
Most of the rest are listed in the Release Notes, or the *.msg files in /isolinux on the first FC2 CD.
The only other ones I'm aware of are the reiserfs, jfs, and xfs options, allowing you to install to those filesystems.
Is anyone aware of any others? (There are a number of other boot options that only apply to installed boots: you can find out most of them by looking through /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. For example, the quiet and rhgb parameters).
Knoppix does a lot of things through boot options because it doesn't necessarily have anywhere else to keep settings. Fedora tends to store a lot of the equivalent settings on disk.
James.
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