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Title: Need to add boot: parameters at install
Post by: Jerry on October 11, 2001, 10:05:21 PM

Hello all,

I'm trying to install SME5.0 on a laptop.  The /sbin/loader hangs when the cd boots, but I've already found from RedHat's site that entering    'linux  nousb'
at the boot:  prompt will allow it to continue booting.

The problem is that the install wants me to type "accept" at the boot: prompt.  Is there any other way to get my boot parameter into the boot sequence at install time?

Thanks a ton for any help you can offer.

-Jerry

Title: Re: Need to add boot: parameters at install
Post by: Rob Hillis on October 11, 2001, 10:49:36 PM

Jerry wrote:
> I'm trying to install SME5.0 on a laptop.  The /sbin/loader
> hangs when the cd boots, but I've already found from RedHat's
> site that entering    'linux  nousb'
> at the boot:  prompt will allow it to continue booting.
> The problem is that the install wants me to type "accept" at
> the boot: prompt.  Is there any other way to get my boot
> parameter into the boot sequence at install time?

Simply type "accept nousb" instead.  This *should* achieve your desired result.

Title: Re: Need to add boot: parameters at install
Post by: Jerry on October 12, 2001, 01:51:41 AM

"accept nousb" fixed the problem.  Thanks!

Title: Re: Need to add boot: parameters at install
Post by: Kelvin Lee on October 12, 2001, 02:39:58 AM

Hi,

Would you happen to know if you could specify "accept dd" to force the installer to ask for a driver disk (like the original RH 7 installer) ?

Kelvin

Title: Re: Need to add boot: parameters at install
Post by: Darrell May on October 13, 2001, 11:41:18 PM

Kelvin Lee wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Would you happen to know if you could specify "accept dd" to
> force the installer to ask for a driver disk (like the
> original RH 7 installer) ?
>
> Kelvin

Yes that works as well :)

Darrell

Title: Re: Need to add boot: parameters at install
Post by: Kelvin on October 14, 2001, 02:43:18 AM

Thanks for the reply Darrell.

I actually found out earlier that this could be done too (not by choice, my ESSG gave problems and I was forced to reinstall :(   ). Since I was redoing it anyway, I decided to try the "accept dd" command and was very happy to find out that it indeed works !

Now, I have a new home for an old, supposedly unsupported, ISA Adaptec SCSI controller and an old SCSI HDD & CD-ROM  :) .

Cheers !

Kelvin

Title: One more thing about "accept nousb"
Post by: Jerry Karn on October 16, 2001, 10:13:17 PM

I should add that "accept nousb" only got the install going.  After the reboot it hung again because /etc/rc.sysinit was still probing for USB.  Since I was diligent and made a emergency floppy, I rebooted with it and:  "linux nousb" and that let me in to edit /etc/rc.sysinit.

Don't know if this affects all pc's with usb hardware or just newer thinkpads, but I figure this may help someone else if they're in the same boat.

...just don't ask me how to get usb working!   :-)