Bug 677

Summary: Ctrl-C in boot flop fdisk panics system
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: aa8vb
Component: util-linuxAssignee: Matt Wilson <msw>
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Version: 5.2CC: aa8vb
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Description aa8vb 1999-01-03 22:06:09 UTC 
Recently helped some friends install Redhat 5.2, and
when setting up their partitions with fdisk, we
incorrectly selected hit "a" to add a partition (this
is instead the cmd to toggle the bottable flag).  Pressing
<ENTER> alone did not abort the prompt so we hit Ctrl-C
to abort the command.  Amazingly, the kernel paniced and the
system rebooted.
Comment 1 David Lawrence 1999-01-04 20:20:59 UTC 
I have verified that this does occur as the user has reported. Hitting
control-c does in fact hang the install.
Comment 2 Matt Wilson 1999-03-26 01:55:59 UTC 
Fixed in next release