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

[Dan Horák <dan danny cz>]

Thomas M Steenholdt píše v Čt 04. 01. 2007 v 12:45 +0100:
> David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 11:25 +0100, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> >> 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. 
> > 
> > It's not the network driver -- it's dhcp. Set the address manually and
> > it should work OK.
> > 
> 
> That doesn't seem to do it.
> 
> On the Alt+F3 message screen, I get
> 
> WARNING: no network link determined on eth0

There used to be a problem with networking on RHEL (or FC) virtual
machines on VMware where the pcnet32 driver was reporting that there is
no link. The workaround was to disable the link checking in the network
startup scripts.


		Dan