Bug 58717

Summary:	installation requires /boot and / partitions
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	harry.heinisch
Component:	aboot	Assignee:	Alexandre Petit-Bianco <apbianco>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Beth Uptagrafft <bhu>
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Version:	7.3
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Description harry.heinisch 2002-01-23 18:22:42 UTC

Description of Problem: installation on Alpha now seems to require both a /boot
and a / (root) partition. installation to a single / (root) partition is no
longer possible (worked fine under RH 7.1). If the install is told to proceed
without a /boot partition, installation will be nearly complete, and then bomb
out in anaconda somewhere, leaving the aboot bootstrap uninstalled, as well as
no XFree86 configuration file(s).


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


How Reproducible: always 


Steps to Reproduce: 
1. during setup of partitions, manually set only / (root) and swap
2. proceed with install
3. watch it crash at the end

Actual Results:


Expected Results: it should be possible to install to a single root partition


Additional Information: this is not really an aboot problem, but there don't
appear to be any legal "Component" choices for:

	disk druid
	fdisk
	installation (general)

any of which would be more descriptive.

Comment 1 harry.heinisch 2002-01-23 21:20:58 UTC

This technique of creating a small /boot partition for holding the kernel(s)
to be booted, is a hold-over from previous releases which used an older (v0.7)
of aboot, which had a limitation on how far a kernel could be from the start of
the partition. This limitation no longer exists with aboot v0.9a which is
part of the alpha-7.2-beta1 installation.

Comment 2 Beth Uptagrafft 2002-02-13 18:12:04 UTC

Fixed and will be in next delivery.

Comment 3 Beth Uptagrafft 2002-03-13 14:51:21 UTC

I'm closing this case because it was fixed in the Feb 22 delivery.  Please let 
us know if you still see any problems with this issue.