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

[Dave Burns]

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 August 2012 06:20, Richard Vickery <richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Dave Burns <tburns at hawaii.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Richard Vickery
>>> <richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > 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,
>
>>> >
>>> > 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?

Hmmm, now that you ask, I suspect it is the live disk. Embarrassment.
I was not the person who created it. Is there a different approach for
the live disk, or should I just burn another disk with the correct
installer on it?
TDB

> Anyone know
> how the anaconda arguments should work?
>
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