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

[Ed Greshko]

On 08/07/2012 03:58 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
> 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.

You could mount the iso images of a Live CD and the Install DVD to learn the differences.

The kernel image is the same.  The initrd.img are vastly different.

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