Bug 5081

Summary:	Red Hat boot image from web is corrupt
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	margarita
Component:	bootp	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	margarita
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description margarita 1999-09-12 03:24:08 UTC

ftp::/updates.redhat.com/6.0/images/i366/boot.img is
corrupt;  fails signature from the following command.
"rpm --checksig --nopgp boot.img"

result:
boot.img: rpmReadSignature failed

(another gottcha)

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-09-13 18:31:59 UTC

Its not an RPM - you can't run rpm --checksig on it.

Comment 2 margarita 1999-09-18 18:35:59 UTC

boot.img has invalid signature from rpm - is corrupt and won't boot
the system

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 1999-09-18 20:30:59 UTC

What is the error message?

Comment 4 margarita 1999-09-19 01:08:59 UTC

The error message is:
booting:
loading initrd.img.......boot failed.
As mentioned above another error message is the failed signature of
rpm.

I noticed that the filesystem of boot.img is type vfat while the
modules and supp disk is ext2. Does that make any difference?

Comment 5 David Lawrence 1999-09-19 18:35:59 UTC

You may likely have a bad disk or currupted download. Please try again
with either a new diskette or redownload the file.

Comment 6 margarita 1999-10-25 21:50:59 UTC

Still corrupt as far as I know.
The rpm issue:

If I am not supposed to run rpm on it then the web page has an error.

Check
http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/errata/RHEA1999036_01.html
It states:
You can verify each package with the following command:

rpm --checksig filename


If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or
tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command:

rpm --checksig --nopgp filename
MD5 sum                           Package Name
--------------------------------------------

fb4148c2beb24916bb656285707208e  boot.img
20388eb5a5e5610e13d15c052253ac4b  bootnet.img
e44b6ca830437d9dff5a3b4279c24e85  modules.img
bd59241e384f615aed68d0e8bc37320d  supp.img


Last time I tried the numbers did not match. I will try
another time this evening when I get home.