On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 6:07 AM, Jobst Schmalenbach <jo...@barrett.com.au> wrote: > Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-23-10.iso > USB based DVD > Lenovo Yoga > > Description of problem: > Originally I tried to boot to rescue mode on a Lenovo Yoga that has Ubuntu > installed. I wanted to start rescue mode, then wipe the ubuntu install by > formatting the partitions (/ and boot using mkfs.ext4) and replace Ubuntu > with Fedora 23.
You're best off letting the installer delete these partitions because it'll do a proper teardown and wipe all the signatures for each layer. Leaving these signatures around can cause problems later. > > So I inserted the Fedora 23 DVD, wait for the bios boot menu to appear, > select the DVD drive with inserted Fedora 23 and boot to that. When the grub > menu appears I select tab and change the kernel line to have "rescue" at the > end, delete the "quiet" so I can see what is going on and add "vag=771". > > Just after the "Started D-Bus System Message Bus" it stops: > > "Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked. See sulogin(8) > man page for more details. > > As this is "rescue mode" and the idea of rescue mode is to be able to access > anything that is on the computer even with a messed up password it is tricky. There is a Troubleshooting submenu, and an option Rescue a Fedora installation. Pick that. And then when you get to the text menu, just don't have it assemble whatever it finds, and you'll get to a shell prompt instead. I have no idea what vag=771 means... > > How reproducible: > I have tried this on three computers: > 1: a beefy, selfmade workstation that has Fedora 22 installed on the local > hard drive > 2: a Dell XPS 13, that has Windows installed (but UEFI disabled) > 3: Lenovo Yoga that has Ubuntu 16.04 installed (UEFI disabled) > all of them have the same issue > > Additional info: > It does not matter what setting UEFI boot is set to, I tried this with every > possible setting in the BIOS that was given to me by the different > manufacturers, I could not get pass the "root account is locked" I would start by not including vag=771 as a boot parameter. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
