Hi Stephen, Booting with option "failsafe" is equal to booting with "linux |nonet simplex apm=off acpi=off noapic nofstab". One or more of these options make your system work correctly. Can you try to identify which option(s) are needed?
Urs |Stephen Isard wrote: > Hello, > > I've downloaded livedvd_SL53_2009-03-23.iso and it works fine when I > boot it with the "failsafe" command. However with "linux [options]", > I don't get a chance to set a password and all attempts at login are > rejected for either sluser or root. I've tried the "pw=" and > "nopasswd" options, but they seem to have no effect. I'm just taken > straight from the keyboard choice screen to the login screen, rather > than being asked to choose a password as I am with "failsafe". Has > anyone else seen this behaviour? Is there something else I should be > doing? > > In case it matters, the machine in question is an IBM Thinkpad x31 > laptop with an external usb dvd drive. > > Stephen Isard
