Bug 101811
| Summary: | confusing list of install boot options | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 | Reporter: | Alex Williamson <alex_williamson> |
| Component: | rhl-ig-as-x86 | Assignee: | Sandra Moore <smoore> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Tammy Fox <tammy.c.fox> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2.1 | CC: | adstrong |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | ia64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHL-AS-AW-2.1-Manual/rhl-ig-as-itanium-en-2.1/s1-ia64-intro-efi-shell.html#S2-IA64-INTRO-EFI-DEVICE-NAMES | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-08-28 23:31:28 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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This has been clarified and will be available in the next release of the documentation. Thanks for the feedback. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030803 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 Description of problem: The web page lists the following: Boot Loader Options To pass options to the boot loader, enter the following at the EFI Shell prompt: Shell>elilo linux option Acceptable options that can be passed to the installation program are as follows: * text � use text mode installation program * lowres � use 640 x 480 resolution * dd � use a driver disk * expert � expert mode * askmethod � select the installation method you would like to use when booting from the CD -- It's confusing that these are all options that get passed to anaconda and there are no kernel options listed. Customers have have confused the "text" option to imply a serial console. Perhaps some common kernel boot options would be useful here. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Read web page 2. Get confused ;^) 3. Additional info: