Bug 220001

Summary: IDE-CD is falsely detected as primary BIOS disk
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Martin Wilck <martin.wilck>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
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Version: 5.0CC: peter.pols
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Anaconda error from rescue system none

Description Martin Wilck 2006-12-18 09:11:56 UTC
Description of problem:
RHEL5 installation fails on a system without IDE disk and IDE CD-ROMbecause the
CD drive is "used" by anaconda as primary disk for installing the Grub MBR


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
11.1.2.20-1

How reproducible: always
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Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RHEL5RC3 on a system with SCSI disks and IDE CD-ROM. Network
installation method (NFS) was used in our case, I don't know if that's a
necessary criterion for the bug to appear.
2. Skip the "advanced bootloader options" menu
3. Complete installation
  
Actual results:
System is unable to boot (no boot loader installed)

Expected results:
Correct boot loader installtation

Additional info:
If the advanced bootloader options menu is used during installation, the IDE
CD-ROM is listed on top. It is possible to correct the "BIOS disk order" here
and force correct boot loader installation. However it seems awkward that a CD
drive is even offered for boot loader installation.

The BIOS EDD information as provided by the "edd.ko" module is correct.

Comment 1 Martin Wilck 2006-12-18 09:11:57 UTC
Created attachment 143885 [details]
Sysreport of affected system

Comment 2 Martin Wilck 2006-12-18 09:42:30 UTC
Created attachment 143888 [details]
Anaconda error from rescue system

When trying to fix this problem with the installation CD in rescue mode, the
attached error occurs, making matters worse. The MBR can only be fixed by
booting in installation mode again and using the command line.

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2006-12-19 19:17:33 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 217434 ***