Bug 82228
| Summary: | Install crashes when making boot floppy leaving install incomplete/inoperable | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Donald E Haselwood <dhaselwood> | ||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> | ||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | michael | ||||
| 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: | 2003-01-21 17:54:05 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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The Anaconda traceback information that was generated would be helpful in assisting with this bug. However, I can already tell you that your system has insufficient memory for Red Hat Linux 8.0 (please see Bug 76123). A Pentium CPU is the minimum requirement for 8.0. Created attachment 89481 [details]
Save to floppy, after selecting write boot floppy
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.8 [en] (Win98; U) Description of problem: When making a boot floppy intaller crashes. If making a boot floppy is skipped then installer says no changes made to kernel and exits (even though a reformatted HD install). Install appears to go correctly up to this step. The same problem occurs if making an upgrade from RH6.2 (to RH8.0). System is a 486-DX66 with 24MB ram (8GB HD). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run the install and select the option to make a boot disk. 2. 3. Actual Results: Bugzilla message. Expected Results: A boot floppy should have been written. Additional info: Appears it has do with installing the kernel image. Booting the installer with 'linux rescue' and doing the 'chroot /mnt/sysimage' results in a fail upon reboot with kernel panic and msg "...try init=options".