whatever happened to the Alt+F2 installer shell?

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 11:25 +0100, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
>> Hi...
>>
>> 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. However I cannot really look into the problem, because 
>> the Alt+F2 shell, that I would normally consult first to figure out what 
>> is going on, is blank/empty.
>> Is this on purpose? I tried to search through this list, but cannot find 
>> anything.
> 
> 
> I don't know at what stage you're trying this; but that shell is
> normally only available once anaconda has taken over from the loader (eg
> the loader first asks for keyboard and stuff and for the installer
> media, then it goes to find anaconda image there (stage2.img) and only
> when THAT is running will you get that shell)
> 

Okay! That explains it, then.

I'm on the boot.iso, which will load stage2 from an installation source. 
And since that can't happen, because my network appears *down* to the 
system, i can't get to the stage2 image.

I'll try to think of other things to try to get this working.

Thanks a lot.

/Thomas