Bug 396759

Summary:	kiwi: Instructions on "Welcome to KIWI" prompt unclear
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE.org	Reporter:	Brandon Philips <bphilips>
Component:	System Imaging	Assignee:	Marcus Schaefer <ms>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Adrian Schröter <adrian.schroeter>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Other
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Description Brandon Philips 2008-06-03 15:40:31 UTC

On VIA C3 systems entering the graphical boot screen fails and falls back to the text prompt. (see bug 231104)

However, the text prompts instructions are unclear/confusing.

The prompt reads enter 'Live-System' and press <return>

If a user types Live-System and presses return an error appears.  The
instructions for noacpi and failsafe are unclear also.

From OpenSUSE 11.0 RC1 GNOME LiveCD i386: http://ifup.org/~philips/cimg1555.jpg

This was filed under bug 396073 but Steffen Winterfeldt said in bug 231104, comment 93 that it should be reassigned to the KIWI folks.  So here it is :D

Thanks,

Brandon

Comment 1 Marcus Schaefer 2008-06-03 16:07:32 UTC

Steffen if the graphics screen failed the isolinux.msg file is
displayed. I thought one has to enter the labels available in isolinux.cfg
manually at the boot prompt. There is following in isolinux.cfg

# Live-System
label Live-System
  kernel linux
  append initrd=initrd ramdisk_size=512000 ramdisk_blocksize=4096 splash=silent showopts

but if you enter Live-System the information from this label seems not
to be used. Can you tell me what is wrong there ? if graphics boot would
work these problems doesn't appear

thanks

Comment 2 Brandon Philips 2008-06-04 00:25:38 UTC

On the openSUSE-11.0-RC1-GNOME-LiveCD-i386.iso the labels don't match the message.

isolinux.cfg
============

# openSUSE-11.0 [ ISO ]
label openSUSE-11.0 [ ISO ]
  kernel linux
  append initrd=initrd ramdisk_size=512000 ramdisk_blocksize=4096 splash=silent showopts

# openSUSE-11.0 [ ISO ]
label Failsafe-openSUSE-11.0 [ ISO ]
  kernel linux
  append initrd=initrd ramdisk_size=512000 ramdisk_blocksize=4096 splash=silent showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume selinux=0 nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off

isolinux.msg
============
To start the live System enter 'Live-System' and press <return>.

Available boot options:

  Live-System - Live System
  memtest     - Memory Test

'noacpi' or 'failsafe' may be necessary on some tricky hardware.


Typing openSUSE-11.0 or Failsafe-openSUSE-11.0 at the boot prompt works fine.  Either the msg or the cfg needs to be fixed.

Comment 3 Steffen Winterfeldt 2008-06-04 09:24:15 UTC

Good point. :-)

Comment 4 Marcus Schaefer 2008-06-04 12:21:18 UTC

right me so stupid. The labels are exchanged by the name of the image which
means they are more or less dynamic. I have to adapt the welcome text too

Comment 5 Marcus Schaefer 2008-06-04 12:35:12 UTC

fixed