Bug 84787
| Summary: | Boot floppy creation failed- initrd.img TOO BIG | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta | Reporter: | Josiah Royse <jroyse> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | phoebe | ||
| 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: | 2003-02-21 17:59:36 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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Unfortunately, your system requires too many modules for everything you need to boot to be able to fit on a floppy. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: During the end of the install the make boot disk failed- pop-up error about floppy error. Console error: No space left of device. Rebooted to a working system: [root@tabasco root]# mdir a: Volume in drive A has no label Volume Serial Number is 3E56-1E18 Directory for A:/ LDLINUX SYS 7836 02-21-2003 7:40 VMLINUZ 1122197 02-13-2003 12:05 vmlinuz INITRD IMG 90112 02-21-2003 7:40 initrd.img SYSLINUX CFG 0 02-21-2003 7:40 syslinux.cfg BOOT MSG 0 02-21-2003 7:40 boot.msg 5 files 1 220 145 bytes 0 bytes free [root@tabasco root]# Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Phoebe-3, anaconda-8.0.94-5 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install: Choose no MBR bootloader 2.Install all packages 3.make bootdisk Actual Results: bootdisk to boot off of Expected Results: Bootdisk error in creation. Additional info: Athlon 1Ghz, Joe-average floppy disk and floppy