Bug 55279

Summary:	mkbotdisk doesn't make a working bootdisk
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Tom Diehl <me>
Component:	mkbootdisk	Assignee:	Matt Wilson <msw>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	CC:	ewt
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Hardware:	i386
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Description Tom Diehl 2001-10-29 05:45:17 UTC

Description of Problem:During the upgrade to 7.2 when prompted to make a 
bootdisk I did. Later I tried to boot the machine with it and get the 
following:
BOOT:
Loading
Boot Failed: Please change disks and press any key to continue.
I tried a different disk and even tried making another disk on a 
different machne and I got the same results.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How Reproducible: Every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1. mkbootdisk `uname -r`
2. or choose to make a bootdisk during the anaconda install
3. 

Actual Results:
No errors are reported until you try to boot with the disk.



Expected Results:
Machine should boot.

Additional Information:

Comment 1 Erik Troan 2002-06-03 19:12:15 UTC

could you make sure the boot disk isn't out of free space?

I assume the boot.img for installs boots properly on this machine?

Comment 2 Tom Diehl 2002-06-03 19:55:06 UTC

 I have since upgraded the machines to 7.3 (There were 3 of them with this 
problem). I just made a boot disk on one of them and tried it and it booted 
just fine. Thanks anyway.