Bug 3860
| Summary: | \dosutils\autoboot.bat refers to missing initrd file | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | maxfield |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | d.n.muir, mark, maxfield, milan.kerslager, walt |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 1999-07-02 18:13:08 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
maxfield
1999-07-01 19:34:18 UTC
Unfortunately this is a known problem and will be fixed in the next release of Red Hat. Until then please instead of using the current autoboot.bat file, type: loadlin autoboot\vmlinuz initrd=.\autoboot\initrd.img *** Bug 3951 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I've finally gotten brave enough to try RedHat 6.0 - but the CD won't autoboot for me. What I had to do was create a bootable floppy with CD driver, define the CD as drive Z (to get it out of the way in case I had other hard drives), copy \dosutils\autoboot.bat as rh6set.bat on the floppy and call this from the floppy's autoexec.bat. I then had to edit the loadlin line of rh6set.bat to: z: cd dosutils loadlin autoboot\vmlinuz initrd=autoboot\initrd.img initrd.img was not in the place specified in the original autoboot.bat. There were initrdN.img files (N being numbers) there. Hopefully helpfully... Dexter *** Bug 2388 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Current \dosutils\autoboot.bat looks like this: loadlin autoboot\vmlinuz initrd=..\misc\src\trees\initrd.img This sould be initrd=autoboot\initrd.img Anyway file ..\misc\src\trees\initrd.img does not exist. In directory ..\misc\src\trees you now have only files initrd-local.img and initrd-network.img. ------- Additional Comments From jbj 06/19/99 16:00 ------- *** Bug 3257 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** On installing after booting off the CDROM, I had found that the AUTOBOOT.BAT INITRD.IMG is pointing to the wrong directory. The directory it should be pointing to is as follows: X:\DOSUTILS\AUTOBOOT\INITRD.IMG. (X being the cdrom drive letter). Entering this at the root seems to run correctly. ------- Additional Comments From jbj 06/19/99 14:56 ------- *** Bug 3584 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Trying to start up manually from DOS, I invoked the AUTOBOOT script from the \DOSTOOLS directory, and LOADLIN failed to find the appropriate kernel and ramdisk image. Looking around, I found apparently the only kernel and ramdisk image on the CD, but they were in different directories than the batch file was referencing. Manually running loadlin with the different paths allowed me to boot and install normally. *** Bug 2424 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** dosutils/autoboot.bat points to: initrd=..\misc\src\trees\initrd.img there aint a misc\src\trees\initrd.img there is a initrd-local.img. I assume that is the file that should be used. Not sure if there is a symlink that got omitted. Archive mirrored from metalab.unc.edu. ------- Additional Comments From dkl 04/29/99 17:58 ------- I have verified this to be true. ------- Additional Comments From notting 04/29/99 18:55 ------- *** Bug 2418 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** in i386/dosutils/autoboot, vmlinux is a directory and should be a file. There is a .in.vmlinuz. file... This was from the mirror at metalab. I could not login to the main FTP site or any other mirror to check if this is a global problem or a mirror problem. |