Bug 715589

Summary: boot mode options wrong kernel commandline
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Documentation Reporter: Karel Volný <kvolny>
Component: install-guideAssignee: Jack Reed <jreed>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Ruediger Landmann <rlandman+disabled>
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Description Karel Volný 2011-06-23 12:53:23 UTC 
Description of problem:

The chapter "Boot Options"

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/Installation_Guide/ap-admin-options.html

contains several references to boot commandline in the form of "linux ..."

I was specifically interested in initiating the text mode install, which is described as "linux text".

But this doesn't work.

What has worked for me (except for bug 715584) was:

vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img text


This may seem obvious, but in a situation where your install freezes, you want to be 100% sure that you enter exactly the commands you're expected to enter ...
Comment 1 Jack Reed 2011-10-21 05:20:03 UTC 
*** Bug 714340 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Jack Reed 2011-10-21 05:22:25 UTC 
Hi Karel,

Thanks for reporting this. I've tested this in the Fedora 16 Beta though, and commands in the form "linux..." are now working.

Cheers,

Jack