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Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES via Text Mode 55
boot:
4.3.1. Text Mode Boot Options
If you press [Enter] at the
boot:
prompt, or if you take no action within the first minute after the
boot:
prompt appears, the graphical installation program will start. Pressing one of the help screen
function keys as described in Section 4.3.2 disables this autostart feature.
To start the text mode installation program, before pressing [Enter], type:
boot:
text
If the installation program does not properly detect your hardware, you may need to restart the instal-
lation in "expert" mode. To start an expert mode installation, type:
boot:
text expert
Expert mode disables most hardware probing, and gives you the option of entering options for the
drivers loaded during the installation.
Note
The initial boot messages will not contain any references to SCSI or network cards. This is normal;
these devices are supported by modules that are loaded during the installation process.
Note that the command to start a serial installation has changed. If you must perform the installation
in serial mode, use the following command:
boot:
linux text console= device
In this command,
device
should be the device you are using (such as ttyS0 or ttyS1).
You can also pass options to the kernel as you are booting the installation program. For example, to
instruct the kernel to use all the RAM in a 128 MB system, enter:
boot:
linux text mem=128M
4.3.2. Displaying Online Help
Once the installation program is loaded into memory, you can obtain information about the installation
process and options by pressing [F1] through [F6]. For example, press [F2] to see general information
about the online help screens.
4.4. Installation Cross-Reference Table
Note
This installation cross-reference table only documents the screens seen when performing a Server
installation.