Let me try again on how to find boot oprions

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Nov 22 13:52:36 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 09:17 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 11/22/2010 07:47 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > It may just be me but when installing F14 from a DVD it is not at all
> > clear how you bring up the boot prompt so you can type: Linux text, for
> > example, and do a text install?
> >
> > The install Manual says one types commands like this at the boot prompt.
> >  But when I boot my DVD I just get a list of four options like: Install and Upgrade and no 
> > boot prompt. So how is this supposed to work?
> >
> 
> As you said in your previous post on this....
> 
> Yes, you type "tab" and then can enter options to the end of the line
> displayed.  The options are listed, not sure if it is all inclusive, at
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options
> 
> For example, adding debug=1 does exactly what it says it does.
> 
> Is this what you want?  What option are you wanting to invoke?
> 
As I said I was going for linux text as described in the Installation
Guide. It looks like instead you type text, which is inconsistent with
the Guide, but such is life.
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