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

[Ian Malone]

On 6 August 2012 19:06, Dave Burns <tburns at hawaii.edu> wrote:
> 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 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.
>>>>


>> 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?

Still hoping someone who knows the difference between the live and
installer discs will chip in here. The kernel image on the Live disk
is vmlinuz0, but that doesn't boot the same way as the documentation
for the install disc one says. I can only guess the install disc
provides a different kernel image as substituting 'vmlinuz0 text' runs
into problems of no root="" and runs into a backtrace. That or the
documentation is wrong.
There is a low resolution graphics mode in the troubleshooting menu if
that would help at all.

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