| Summary: | fixing autoboot.bat | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | jmm |
| Component: | aboot | Assignee: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | bradley, fprimus, xdesign |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 1999-08-19 21:06:00 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
*** Bug 2584 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 19:28:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Bradley Glonka <bradley@linuxcentral.com> To: bugs@redhat.com Subject: Autoboot.bat -> bad initrd RE: Red Hat 6.0 The autoboot.bat file points to a missing initrd image. -- Brad ------- Additional Comments From dkl@redhat.com 05/06/99 13:08 ------- This has been verified to be true on a test lab machine. *** Bug 2726 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** autoboot.bat on the RH 6.0 cd i bought today @ compusa does not work. i fixed the 'problem' by editing it to : pushd e:\ e:\dosutils\loadlin e:\dosutils\autoboot\vmlinuz initrd=e:\dosutils\autoboot\initrd.img popd (using 4dos, on a windoze98 box) this allowed me to run the install just fine from the cdrom. thanks, furlan fprimus@primusic.freeservers.com fprimus@phil-n-le-blanc.com *** Bug 2814 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** This may seem nit-picky, but on one of my sytems that I routinely test stuff on (instead of using a production machine) will not load the boot disk (not RedHat's fault). So instead, I install a DOS disk with CDROM support and use autoboot.bat. That being said, I picked up RH6.0 from Fry's the other day (at a VERY high price -- I'm shocked!!!) and attempted to install it tonight. My first try at "autoboot" failed because it could not find the specified image. I listed the batch file to see what was being done. I checked the directory specified for the file indicated and it wasn't there. There were two other files with similar names so I selected one and manually entered the command line. The installation started in a flash. Someone forgot to update the DOSUTILS directory on the CD. :) Okay now that I have pointed out that flaw, do I get a new copy of the CD when/if it's fixed? :) fixed in Raw Hide... |
autoboot.bat doesn't work. It has been broken by the split from a single boot version into two versions (local and network). It runs a command (one line): loadlin autoboot\vmlinuz initrd=..\misc\src\trees\initrd.img (That was from memory, so it might be wrong. :-) The trees directory contains "initrd-l.img" and "initrd-n.img" for local and network versions. As a workaround, type the command by hand, using the right filename, instead of using autoboot.bat to type the command for you.