Bug 63372
Summary: | anaconda "SysVinit" error/crash after setting root password | ||||||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | usman | ||||
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> | ||||
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 7.2 | ||||||
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: | 2002-04-14 07:16:19 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Description
usman
2002-04-13 01:42:25 UTC
Created attachment 53692 [details]
anaconda "SysVinit" error/crash dump.
Just to add more details that may or may not matter: After I tell it to auto-partition, I consistently get a message that the boot partition /boot may not meet booting constraints for my architecture. I take this to mean that boot partitions past the nth partition might not boot. I don't think this is very important right now, as I just want to get it installed first and see for myself. I've always ignored this warning. After it auto-partitions, the / partition has about 2.1 GB of space, and the other .3 GB are divvied up between the boot partition and the extended/swap partition(s). There still should be enough space for an install with Gnome only, which I usually attempted when I actually got past the root password screen. But I'll file another report for that one when I get there again.. I set the ntsf partition with Win2K Pro on it as the default boot image, and tell it to install the boot loader (GRUB) record on the first sector of hda1 (the /boot partition). The last non-error message I see on the screen after clicking "Next" on the root password screen is "Reading Package Info". And that's when it crashes. Wow.. do I win the "most detailed bug report" award, or what? > I take this to mean that boot partitions past the nth partition might not boot
Er.. s/partition/cylinder/ ...
There are a lot of errors reading the CD-ROM in the syslog. Are these CDs you burned yourself? If so, do the md5sums match those published on our ftp site? I didn't burn them myself, my friend did, and the ISO's are on his computer, if he didn't delete them. He's miles away and probably asleep by now, and I doubt that he even kept the ISO's. I'm starting to think the burns were bad, and I remember him saying that the CDs he used were cheap.. I'm currently downloading the ISO's to an ext2 partition I just created and preparing to install from the HD.. *hopefully* this will work. Before this case is closed -- if the ISO md5sums did match, is the problem definitely the CD? Let us know if this is a problem when y'all reburn the CDs and check the md5sums. |