Bug 39194
Summary: | running anaconda bad argument --overhead unknown option | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | rich van steenberg <richard> |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.1 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2001-05-20 17:22:10 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
rich van steenberg
2001-05-05 08:21:59 UTC
Are you passing in any boot options in or are you just booting off the cd and pressing <Enter>? i created a bootnet.img install disk. i then run an ftp install from the web. when the routine starts it mounts a ramdisk and then it transfers from the blue screen to a black text srcreen and appears to call either anaconda or anaconda runtime? It them returns the --overhead unknown option - I am not passing it any options - Can you post the contents of the syslinux.cfg file on the boot floppy that you are using? Something sounds very strange here. Also, did you try installing from a different ftp site? I did a dd if=bootnet.img of=/dev/fd0, then i ran the install. when i put the boot disk in a different 7.0 box, mount /dev/fdo, cd fd and do a ls -la it doesn't show a syslinux.cfg file Ok, something is horribly wrong with your boot disk. If there's no syslinux.cfg file, I'm amazed that the system even boots. I did a little experimenting by making a bootnet.img boot disk and then I removed the syslinux.cfg file. When I rebooted the system, I get the syslinux prompt followed by a message: "Could not find kernel image: linux" Sounds like something is wrong with your installation media, since it looks like you made the boot disk correctly...something else must be wrong with the bootnet.img itself. User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Closing due to inactivity. Please reopen if you have more information. |