-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/07/2012 08:23 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > On 7 August 2012 12:33, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlAhGf0ACgkQqbQrVW3JyMSDDwCaAku3p6ADBXLG71eH8DFVsTFt V7IAniE0KIkM6/EMTyBWAZj0iZK61Zcu =oj/f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
