Bug 89943
| Summary: | boot floppy fails while trying to load initrd.img | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | NILMONI DEB <ndeb> |
| Component: | syslinux | Assignee: | Peter Jones <pjones> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-08-02 15:10:39 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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This really isn't something likely to be fixed. Sorry. |
Description of problem: I am trying to install redhat 9 on an IBM T22 laptop. I used a redhat 9 boot floppy. It boots fine and comes to the boot prompt. I press enter. It says: Loading vmlinuz ................. Loading initrd.img ............ Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue. I do not have any pcmcia devices (in case that is relevant). Also, I have tried options like "noprobe" but it always hangs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. See above 2. 3. Actual results: see above Expected results: should boot normally Additional info: