linux (/boot/vmlinuz), linux-nonfb(/boot/vmlinuz), failsafe(/boot/vmlinuz)SOLVED

[Far North]

This appears to be the wording for the Grub screen from the Installation Icon on the LiveCd for KDE. I've tried a search to have the above translated into real words without success so, hence, this message.

May I have a translation so I can re-write the screen and understand exactly what will be done when I choose one of the three selections? Although one should never "assume", I'm going to "guess" that the first one boots into PCLOS. The second one probably does too, but with some sort of different options and the third one is in case their is a "situation" where the first two aren't doing something right. I may be way off track but I am "assuming"...

Is there a way to simplify these expressions so they are meaningful to me and others who aren't familiar with that phrasing?

A rather confused
Far North...  

[TerryN]

OK here goes  

linux (/boot/vmlinuz)
This one is easy.  You can just call it a "Normal Boot".  You probably know what that does  

failsafe(/boot/vmlinuz)
This one is there in case an update or a configuration change causes an error which prevents your system from starting properly.  It boots into a VERY MINIMAL environment so that (advanced users) can diagnose and repair the problem which is causing the failure to start.  This minimal environment only has a "command shell" (no system services are started or external drivers loaded and certainly no desktop will appear!)  I guess it's kind of equivalent to the Recovery Console on Windows (only MUCH more powerful of course!).  So I would call this one "Recovery Console" or "Repair Console"

linux-nonfb(/boot/vmlinuz)
This one is more interesting because it won't appear on a Graphical Boot Menu!.  Nonfb is short for "no frame buffer driver".  The Frame Buffer driver (FB) is s special driver that can talk to the graphics card for displaying graphics.  In the early days of this driver there were problems using it with some graphics cards, so an option was provided to disable it (not really necessary these days).   So the reason you won't see it on the Graphical Boot Menu is because the Graphical Boot Menu is produced using the FB driver.  So if you can see the menu you know it's working  
(You can hit Escape which will drop you to a "text" menu where you will see all 3 options.)
So I'm not sure what you would call this one 

Hope that helps
Terry

[Far North]

Thank you for your response. You certainly have made it considerably clearer to me than the default verbiage. Since I've never really selected the "fb" nor the "failsafe" (but had a thought what it might do, these two were ignored. Since they do appear, I will re-word them just in case...

I'm glad I had a little more than a vague idea of what I was looking at...

Far North   

[uncleV]

Simple Google searcH:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=bg&q=nonfb&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=