Re: whatever happened to the Alt+F2 installer shell?

[Thomas M Steenholdt <tmus tmus dk>]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 11:25 +0100, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> > Hi...
> >
> > I'm having some problems installing using current rawhide boot.iso under 
> > VMware. It *seems like* there could be a regression in the pcnet32 
> > driver or something, because it looks like the NIC is found but the 
> > network is down. However I cannot really look into the problem, because 
> > the Alt+F2 shell, that I would normally consult first to figure out what 
> > is going on, is blank/empty.
> > Is this on purpose? I tried to search through this list, but cannot find 
> > anything.
>
>
> I don't know at what stage you're trying this; but that shell is
> normally only available once anaconda has taken over from the loader (eg
> the loader first asks for keyboard and stuff and for the installer
> media, then it goes to find anaconda image there (stage2.img) and only
> when THAT is running will you get that shell)

Okay! That explains it, then.

I'm on the boot.iso, which will load stage2 from an installation source. 
And since that can't happen, because my network appears *down* to the 
system, i can't get to the stage2 image.

I'll try to think of other things to try to get this working.

Thanks a lot.

/Thomas