Bug 175470
| Summary: | mkbootdisk fails to create boot disk and errors on iso image | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Henri Schlereth <henris> |
| Component: | mkbootdisk | Assignee: | Ondrej Dvoracek <odvorace> |
| Status: | CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | athlon | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-03-10 01:30:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Henri Schlereth
2005-12-11 10:26:37 UTC
I don't think this is a bug. Why do u expect same error on iso image? U can use
iso image on other("bigger") device.
I am sorry perhaps I wasn't clear enough. mkbootdisk created a 3MB image and tried to shoehorn it onto a 1.44 MB floppy. I merely tried to create an iso version because: 1.) I needed a bootable non-hd kernel for my test 2.) To make sure that mkbootdisk wasn't totally broken. 3.) Therefore I need to reopen this bug. Mkbootdisk doesn't try to shoehorn large image onto a 1.44 MB floppy, because it ends before that. See --size option in man mkbootdisk. # mkbootdisk -v --size 3555 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4smp Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost. Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort: Formatting /tmp/mkbootdisk.Y17678... done. Copying /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4smp... done. Copying /boot/initrd-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4smp.img... done. Configuring bootloader... done. dd: opening `/dev/fd0': No such device or address (there were no floppy disk in drive) Yes, it ends before that which means you cannot create a bootable floppy, which is the default purpose of mkbootdisk. The size option is meaningless since the default is to create a 1.44MB floppy boot disk. If you had tried your test with an actual floppy inserted you would have gotten the following: mkbootdisk -v --size 3555 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4 Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost. Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort: Formatting /tmp/mkbootdisk.F31988... done. Copying /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4... done. Copying /boot/initrd-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4.img... done. Configuring bootloader... done. dd: writing `/dev/fd0': No space left on device 21+0 records in 20+0 records out And again you would have an unbootable floppy. Your choices are that your stock kernel and initrd.img are too big for mkbootdisk and customers have to be told to roll their own shrunken down to a fit on a floppy or that mkbootdisk no longer can support floppies because the kernel cannot be shrunken down. So I am going to reopen this one last time in an effort to actually have this issue addressed. This was one of the main reasons that I stopped being a beta tester. I am tired of RH people dismissing bugs without really double checking the results. This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks. Fedora Core 4 is no longer maintained. Setting status to "INSUFFICIENT_DATA". If you can reproduce this bug in the current Fedora release, please reopen this bug and assign it to the corresponding Fedora version. |