Bug 124635
| Summary: | Installation CD does not boot using SCSI CDROM | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | akopps |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-06-01 18:59:03 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 a BIOS bug on your system. Please upgrade the BIOS and this will work. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Description of problem: The RHEL 3.0 WS update 2 CD1 fails to boot on a PC with a SCSI CD-ROM drive. On boot, I see the following two lines on my screen: isolinux: loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it isolinux: Failed to locate CD-ROM device; boot failed. The SCSI adapter is Adaptec 2940. The CDROM drive is being reported by Linux as: Vendor: NEC Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:464 Rev: 1.04 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 This system is very old (Pentium 2 class) and it used to boot just fine using RedHat Linux 7.3 installation CDROM. I have tested the CD1 on other systems with IDE CDROM drives and it seems to work fine there. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attempt to boot the installation CD1 on the system 2. 3. Actual Results: boot fails with the above messages Expected Results: the installation program should have started. Additional info: