Bug 72859
| Summary: | Boot diskette made using the Boot Diskette HOW-TO hang on boot. | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <pstarzew> |
| Component: | mkbootdisk | Assignee: | Peter Vrabec <pvrabec> |
| Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | CC: | mattdm |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-10-18 17:32:30 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Need Real Name
2002-08-28 15:05:33 UTC
Are you sure that the floppy you were using wasn't bad? Absolutely positive. I must have tried 4 or 5 different diskettes and I went through the entire process from scratch 3 seperate times. I originally encountered this on a Compaq Proliant ML 350. I even had the floppy drive replaced since it was new and under warranty. Started from scratch and still the same problem. Compaq suggested trying it on a non-Compaq system. So I installed 7.3 on a clean, very generic clone, started from scratch and with the same result. At that point I stopped blaming the hardware and went back to what I knew worked. I formatted the drive on the clone system and installed 7.2. I started the diskettes completely from scratch and they worked the first time out. I then reconfigured the kernel from 7.2 to match the Compaq's hardware, made another set of disks and used those on the Compaq without problems. I hope that answers your question. Red Hat apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We do want to make sure that no important bugs slip through the cracks. Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. They are maintained by the Fedora Legacy project (http://www.fedoralegacy.org/) for security updates only. If this is a security issue, please reassign to the 'Fedora Legacy' product in bugzilla. Please note that Legacy security update support for these products will stop on December 31st, 2006. If this is not a security issue, please check if this issue is still present in a current Fedora Core release. If so, please change the product and version to match, and check the box indicating that the requested information has been provided. If you are currently still running Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9, please note that Fedora Legacy security update support for these products will stop on December 31st, 2006. You are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Any bug still open against Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9 at the end of 2006 will be closed 'CANTFIX'. Again, if this bug still exists in a current release, or is a security issue, please change the product as necessary. We thank you for your help, and apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX. |