Bug 103938
| Summary: | Installer failed formatting boot partition | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Rob Farmer <robfarmer8> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-09-25 23:27:04 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This is because there is no kernel compatible with your machine included in this release. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) Description of problem: System Configuration: ASUS P5A-B AMD K6-2 500 288 MB PC-100 RAM MSI MS-8807 TNT2 16 mb ram WD 60GB & Fujitsu 4GB Hard drives Compaq 48x Cd-rom The installer fails when formatting the /boot partition stating this system is not compatible with this release of Red Hat Linux. The error message is not descripitive, does not tell why the installer failed, and simply reboots the system. All hardware should work fine with Linux. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot installer from Cd. (Graphic or text doesn't matter) 2.Choose any install type 3.Partition the second hard drive for Linux, leaving windows on the first. Partitioning can be automatic or manual. 4.Choose to use GRUB as bootloader. 5. Complete rest of installer to About to Install point. 6. Click next, formatting occurs, installer fails about 90% complete formatting /boot. Actual Results: Error message - system is not compatible with this verson of Red Hat Linux Expected Results: Installer completes sucessfully Additional info: All hardware is listed compatible with Red Hat Linux.