Bug 39825
Summary: | boot.img error for floppy boot-up harddisk installation | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Chris Chan <chris_chan> |
Component: | installer | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.1 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-7.1-Manual/install-guide/s1-steps-install-cdrom.html#S2-STEPS-MAKE-DISKS | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2001-05-09 15:19:30 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: | |
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Description
Chris Chan
2001-05-09 09:06:54 UTC
No, we changed the way hard drive installs work. They now require that the ISO images be on the hard drive...not the installation tree. There were just soooo many people that had problems with it that changing it was the best thing to do. This is all documented in the release notes. Just download the isos, stick them on a partition, boot off the boot.img and then select "Hard Drive". That should work fine. Can you tell me why it is not possible to have the installer support both methods? I downloaded the entire alpha distribution, only to find that I had to download both ISO images instead, *AGAIN*, because of this misfeature. As a secondary issue, which I will file in another bug, the hard disk install apparently requires the hard disk to be a FAT partition. This is not the case when UPGRADING.... |