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