Bug 9375

Summary:	RH 6.1 -> RH 6.1.92 upgrade didn't make a boot disk
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Jussi Torhonen <jt>
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description Jussi Torhonen 2000-02-12 10:08:58 UTC

Upgraded RH 6.1/i386 in home up to RH 6.1.92. First time evaluating RH
6.1.92 I this time selected 'create boot disk...' during RH 6.1.92
installation. Installer did not detect the floppy drive, because floppy
drive LED didn't blink at all. Installer asked a new blank diskette over
and over again. It did not detect there was a diskette in drive. The
diskette was ok for sure as well as floppy drive. MB ASUS TX97-XE with
Intel TX PCI chipset, 128 MB RAM and 8 GB IBM ATAPI IDE hard disk. NT 4.0
installed on /dev/hda1, RH installed on /dev/hda2 and swap partition
/dev/hda3. LILO installed in /dev/hda2 and the system multibooted via NT
Boot Loader.

Regards,
Jussi, jt

Comment 1 Jay Turner 2000-02-14 12:58:59 UTC

Sure enough the creation just times out before even checking the drive.

Comment 2 Jussi Torhonen 2000-02-14 13:20:59 UTC

Could be possible. It took about 15 minutes for me to find a pc equipped
with devil's OS to create a blank formatted disk for RH installer.

Regards,
Jussi, jt

Comment 3 Jay Turner 2000-02-15 00:42:59 UTC

Issue will be resolved in next RawHide.