The Boot Screen - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 17-03-2009 Deployment Manual

how to perform non-interactive, automated installations, refer to
Installations" (page 209).

3.4 The Boot Screen

The boot screen displays a number of options for the installation procedure. Boot from
Hard Disk boots the installed system and is selected default, because the CD is often
left in the drive. Select one of the other options with the arrow keys and press Enter to
boot it. The relevant options are:
Installation
The normal installation mode. All modern hardware functions are enabled. In case
the installation fails, see
tially problematic functions.
Repair Installed System
Boots into the graphical repair system. More information on repairing an installed
system is available in Section "Recovering a Corrupted System" (Chapter 7,
Common Problems and Their Solutions, ↑System Analysis and Tuning Guide).
Rescue System
Starts a minimal Linux system without a graphical user interface. For more infor-
mation, see Section "Using the Rescue System" (Chapter 7, Common Problems
and Their Solutions, ↑System Analysis and Tuning Guide).
Firmware Test
Starts a BIOS checker that validates ACPI and other parts of your BIOS.
Memory Test
Tests your system RAM using repeated read and write cycles. Terminate the test
by rebooting. For more information, see Section "Fails to Boot" (Chapter 7, Common
Problems and Their Solutions, ↑System Analysis and Tuning Guide). This option
is not available with the CD-KDE and CD-GNOME media.
F5 Kernel (page 23) for boot options that disable poten-
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