On 09/06/2016 11:03 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > 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...
I think he means "vga=771" (800x600 8-bit color) > > > >> >> 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. > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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
