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

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

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On 08/07/2012 08:23 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
> On 7 August 2012 12:33, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> I could do, assuming I had both to hand. Can someone then explain why
> the 'linux' command to boot works (assuming the documentation is
> correct) on the install DVD, but not the Live DVD? So far as I can see
> that should be the name of the image that gets started. Rather than
> trying to compare them side by side and guess I was hoping someone who
> knows could actually explain what processes are going on here.
>
For some strange reason it is vmlinuz on the Install DVD and
netinstall CD, But it is linuz0 on the Live CD.
Mikkel
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