boot: linux text => "Could not find kernel image: linux"

[Richard Vickery]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Dave Burns <tburns at 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-admin-options.html
> )
> 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,
> TDB
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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.
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