On Tue 18 Dec 2012 at 15:47:44 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Press Down-Arrow to "Help". Observe the help message, "Display help > screens; type 'menu' at the boot prompt to return to this menu." > Press ENTER to select it. Press F3 to select "Boot methods for > special ways of using this netboot image". Observe that at the bottom > of the screen is "Press F2 through F10 for details, or ENTER to boot: > _" and it is sitting at a command line. You can type in a full > command line manually. The help hint says that two > boot methods are available: > > install > Start the installation -- this is the default netboot image install. > expert > Start the installation in expert mode, for maximum control. > > So ENTER will default to "install". Typing in "expert" will default > to the expert install. Probably set up as an alias expansion > internally.
You were very, very close to a solution when you wrote this. "auto" is a boot method like "install" and "expert". All three are labels in the syslinux configuration of Squeeze and Wheezy for booting a kernel and appending parameters. install, expert and auto need to be given at a *boot prompt*. On Squeeze and Wheezy pressing TAB gives the kernel command line, not a boot prompt. Entering the Help menu does get you a boot prompt. The auto mode documentation goes back to the time of Etch. The splash screen at the time displayed only a boot prompt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121222185504.GL6940@desktop
