Bug 73512

Summary:	NFS Install creates bad bootdisk
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Tim Verhoeven <dj>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Tim Verhoeven 2002-09-05 16:11:28 UTC

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Description of problem:
When I do a NFS install the bootdisk created in the installproces doesn't work.
It hangs at the point it wants to read/use/uncompress the ramdisk. The kernel
itselfs boots.
When installing using FTP the bootdisk created works perfectly.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Network install using NFS
2.Let installer create bootdisk
3.Boot from bootdisk


Actual Results:  The boot hangs at the line :
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0

Even after waiting a long time (a couple of hours) the boot didn't continue

Expected Results:  The bootproces should have continued

Additional info:

The machine is a IBM x440. The modules that will be present in the initrd will
probably be ips,aic7xxx,bm5700 and ext3/jbd.

When I installed using ftp the bootdisk worked fine.

Comment 1 Tim Verhoeven 2002-09-05 16:13:48 UTC

*** Bug 73511 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Matt Wilson 2002-09-17 19:56:13 UTC

Per:

http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/compat/nos/redchat.html

the x440 only works with Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1