Bug 109834
| Summary: | mkboodisk creates incorrect syslinux.cfg file | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Daniel Robitaille <redhat> |
| Component: | mkbootdisk | Assignee: | Peter Vrabec <pvrabec> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| 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 | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:59:57 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116446 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: mkbootdisk creates a floppy disk that is unbootable due to a syxtax error in the created file syslinux.cfg Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mkbootdisk-1.5.1-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. /sbin/mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.4.20-20.9 2. reboot computer with newly created bootable floppy 3. Actual Results: The computer experienced a kernal panic while trying to boot using the newly created bootable floppy. Additional info: It seems the syslinux.cfg file created by the mkbootdisk script contains a syntax error in the append line: [root@localhost root]# cat /mnt/floppy/syslinux.cfg default linux prompt 1 display boot.msg timeout 100 label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img ro hdb=ide-scsi ro hdb=ide-scsi root=/dev/hda7 If the append line is manually edited to make it back into one single line without the extra bit about "ro" and "hdb=ide=scsi", the bootable floppy works perfectly. The problem is possibly linked to the fact that my / partition is labelled "/1" as seen by my /etc/fstab file: [root@localhost root]# cat /etc/fstab LABEL=/1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/redhat ext3 noauto 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat noauto,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0,exec 0 0