On 2012/02/20 16:48 (GMT+0100) Lars Müller composed:
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:22:40AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
I do nearly all my installs by starting downloaded installation initrd& linux with Grub, but the process rarely drops me into text mode. What hardware is doing that to you?
I tried to keep it simple and stupid by keeping the additional parameters you mentioned out of my reply.
I'm pretty sure I recognized that implication when I wrote, but what has that to do with the question I asked?
If you sit in front of the device the way I suggested is the easiest one.
I don't think any such suggestion has found its way to the list yet. The lists were constipated for about 24 hours, and I don't think the backlog has been fully disgorged yet.
Here's the last Grub stanza I used for an i865 system:
title Install SuSE 12.2 snapshot kernel (hd0,2)/suse122/linux showopts install=http://download.opensuse.org/factory-snapshot/repo/oss/ lang=en keytable=us hostname=myhost hostip=192.168.1.2/24 gateway=192.168.1.1 nameserver=192.168.1.1 namescheme=by-label kexec_reboot=0 ipv6.disable=1 noresume video=1152x864 vga=0x318 3 nomodeset initrd (hd0,2)/suse122/initrd
Of course for 12.1 the source would have to be .../distribution/12.1/... rather than .../factory-snapshot/....
There had been changes to the linuxrc parameters. See http://en.openSUSE.org/SDB:Linuxrc
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