Fedora :: 14 Text Install - "empty Root Argument"
Feb 13, 2011
I am trying to install F14 by console so far I did.
1. splash screen of CD with menu appears - I press [tab] at Boot options
2 Appears line vmlinuz0 initrd=initrd0.img root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora-14-i686-Live-Desktop ro otfstype=auto ro liveimg quiet rhgb rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM
2. edited the line to: "vmlinuz0 initrd=initrd0.img text"
3. Pressed enter and started to boot
4. A few seconds late a error message appears saying: "empty root argument"
5. also tryied various modification of "root=" option and of course GOOGLE but only the error message changed: "dont know how to handle root=@cdrom, root=@initrd0.img etc"
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For a month or so now, I have been enabling ssh and opening port 22. I cron'ed the start and stop commands to leave them open only a few hours a day. After a bit, I checked my logs to find that some IP or another was attempting to brute force my root account.
I took little real threat by the offense.
(1) my system does not allow root to login and
(2) it would cut them off sooner than later when my system issued the stop command.
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