Bug 107350
| Summary: | Boot floppy image written to hard disk | ||||||||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Martin Wilck <martin.wilck> | ||||||||||
| Component: | kudzu | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> | ||||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> | ||||||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||||||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | rvokal | ||||||||||
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| Hardware: | All | ||||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | 1.1.34-1 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2003-10-17 20:31:35 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||||
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Created attachment 95254 [details]
/tmp/syslog of installation
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anaconda log from installation
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/proc/partitions
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/ptoc/scsi/scsi
Here an excerpt from /tmp: total 531 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 0 1539 Oct 17 10:00 X.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root 0 3963 Oct 17 2003 XF86Config.test -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 0 190650 May 14 16:49 aic79xx.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root 0 7002 Oct 17 10:04 anaconda.log brw------- 1 root 0 11, 0 Oct 17 10:04 cdrom brw------- 1 root 0 8, 0 Oct 17 2003 dddev drwxr-xr-x 2 root 0 1024 Oct 17 2003 drivers brw------- 1 root 0 8, 0 Oct 17 10:04 floppy -rw-r--r-- 1 root 0 54 Oct 17 2003 isoinfo See that both "dddev" and "floppy" erroneously refer to /dev/sda. Obviously the /tmp/floppy and /tmp/dddev devices do not reflect the fact that in RH9 the usb-storage driver is unloaded before loading any SCSI drivers (which is of course correct). This is due to kudzu's probing getting confused. Fixed in 1.1.34-1. An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2003-344.html |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.11 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030314 Description of problem: This is a funny one - converts a hard disk to a floppy. RH 9 install on a SCSI system needing a driver disk (with aic79xx 1.3.8). The system has no legacy floppy drive and no CD drive, it uses USB CD and floppy instead. When the boot floppy is being written, the device file /tmp/floppy points to the wrong device (hard disk) . Thus, instead of writing the boot floppy, the fresh installation on the hard disk is overwritten. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-9.0-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Do a fresh RH9 install from USB floppy disk on a SCSI hard disk 2.Leave "create boot floppy" checked at end of installation 3.Reboot, remove CD and floppy Actual Results: The boot floppy is empty. The system comes up with a "SYSLINUX" prompt from the hard disk. Expected Results: The USB floppy disk should have been written, and a GRUB boot prompt should appear when booting from hard disk. Additional info: I will attach some log files from the installation. Additional quirk: when trying to reinstall after this problem has occured, the partitioning tool gets massively irritated by the fact that the first hard disks has no partition table but carries a floppy image. The only workaround is a "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1k count=1440" from the shell.