Bug 74159
| Summary: | Space issues with post-null version | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | R P Herrold <herrold> |
| Component: | mkbootdisk | Assignee: | Matt Wilson <msw> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-02-19 06:54:12 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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There are some changes in mkbootdisk-1.5.0-1 to help this problem, but we're a bit limited on what we can do by the size of a floppy :( |
bash-2.05b$ rpm -q mkbootdisk mkbootdisk-1.4.8-1 root@couch etc]# grub-install -v -v /dev/hda grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.92) [root@couch etc]# mkbootdisk 2.4.18-14 Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost. Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort: gzip: stdout: No space left on device cat: write error: No space left on device cat: write error: No space left on device [root@couch etc]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda5 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img # title DOS # rootnoverify (hd0,1) # chainloader +1 [root@couch etc]# ls -al /boot/initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img ls: /boot/initrd: No such file or directory ls: /initrd-2.4.18-14.img: No such file or directory [root@couch etc]# ls -al /boot//initrd-2.4.18-14.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 344406 Sep 16 20:14 /boot//initrd-2.4.18-14.img [root@couch etc]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 497829 349462 122665 75% / /dev/hda1 31079 6514 22961 23% /boot /dev/hda9 1517920 1189524 251288 83% /home none 127716 0 127716 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda8 497829 9875 462252 3% /tmp /dev/hda6 2522048 2176648 217284 91% /usr /dev/hda7 497829 306062 166065 65% /var /dev/hda11 15820524 13409564 1607312 90% /var/ftp/pub/mirror [root@couch etc]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf