Bug 80892
| Summary: | Notify user when architecture is not supported (ie, no kernel package exists) | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | David Chambers <david.chambers> | ||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> | ||||
| 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: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2003-05-25 14:56:36 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 79578 | ||||||
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Created attachment 89040 [details]
Diagnostic Dump via floppy
Dump produced when installer crashes
You need to have a Pentium processor as a minimum. Jeremy we need to make sure we catch this earlier. I think you were working on making sure a kernel package exists? Already done in CVS I'm going through Bugzilla closing some bugs that have been marked as Modified for some period of time. I believe that most of these issues have been fixed, so I'm resolving these bugs as Rawhide. If the bug you are seeing still exists, please reopen this report and mark it as Reopened. |
Description of problem: Anaconda crashes when creating the recommended rescue disk toward the end of the installation process, indicating a bug. This occurs independent of whether GRUB or LILO Loader is selected. Previous notification message indicated that (despite being a clean new all Linux installation) no Kernel packages were loaded, so the boot loader/config had not been updated. Disks and floppy have been double checked/reformatted, and same result happens 4 or 5 times, regardless of build (workstation, server etc). This is a text mode installation on a very simple and old Dell 486P machine, using a newish high speed CDROM. Memory 40MBytes, Disk 6GB, Processor 486/33DX, onboard bog standard VGA graphics with 1K video RAM. If I skip this option (ie make no disk) the installation completes but does not boot, because BIOS cannot find any boot record. BIOS can only see 504MBytes of disk, but boots successfully into a 10MB MSDOS partition at the start of the disk. Error message was: File /usr/bin/anaconda line 694 in intf.run(id,dispatch,ConfigFileData) File /usr/text/anaconda/text.py line 446 in run dispatch.gotoNext() Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Every time - I have tried this 4 or 5 times, double checked/used different the media (floppies, CDROMs etc), and whether selected GRUB or LILO boot loader Steps to Reproduce: 1. Text install booted from floppy using CDROM disks, Linux only machine 2. Agree to create boot/rescue floppy disk toward end of installation 3. Crash when trying to write to floppy Actual results: Crashes every time with error message (indicating a bug) in anaconda program Expected results: Create floppy (or give graceful error message) Additional info: I will append the debug dump via a floppy to this bug report after filing, but the top part is included below: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 694, in ? intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 446, in run dispatch.gotoNext() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 150, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 215, in moveStep rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/floppy.py", line 59, in makeBootdisk kernel = hdList['kernel'] File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 171, in __getitem__ return self.packages[item] KeyError: kernel Local variables in innermost frame: item: kernel self: