Bug 240561
| Summary: | x86_64 diskboot.img no longer works | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Richard Cunningham <richard.cunningham> | ||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Peter Jones <pjones> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | high | ||||||
| Version: | 4.5 | CC: | bmr, greg.caetano, jplans, ram.rao, tao | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Regression | ||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | RHBA-2007-0816 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
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| Last Closed: | 2007-11-15 16:36:06 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Richard Cunningham
2007-05-18 13:47:49 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. This bugzilla has Keywords: Regression. Since no regressions are allowed between releases, it is also being proposed as a blocker for this release. Please resolve ASAP. Manually running mk-image for RHEL4.5/x86_64 seems to confirm this is a problem with overrunning the hardcoded 6M image size: cpio: ./isolinux/./syslinux-splash.png: No such file or directory cpio: ./isolinux/./syslinux.cfg: No such file or directory 163840 pixels, 6000 bytes, (92.68% compression) mv: cannot stat `./isolinux/syslinux.cfg': No such file or directory mkdosfs 2.8 (28 Feb 2001) cp: writing `./images/fobpath/vmlinuz': No space left on device grep: write error: No space left on device Created attachment 157025 [details]
experimental patch for mk-images.x86_64
Bump up the image size to 8M on x86_64. Boot tested & overcomes the initial
problem, i.e. the image is actually bootable. Also add some error checking to
make a failure copying files to the image fatal.
Manually hacking up the image to have the correct .buildstamp allows me to carry out a RHEL4.5 x86_64 install via diskboot.img Verified that replacing the rhel4u5 x86_64 supplied diskboot.img with the patched diskboot.img: http://people.redhat.com/breeves/images/diskboot.img-rhel4.5-x86_64-TEST fixes my syslinux based installation procedure. Thanks! VERIFIED with a 64M USB MicroAdv QuickiDrive stick on a bensley x86_64 using the diskboot.img from RHEL4-U6-re20071017.0/x86_64/WS. 1) $ dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sdb 2) reboot 3) Presented with graphical boot option screen An advisory 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-2007-0816.html |