Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 101271
Installer offers to make boot diskette; machine has no floppy drive
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:56:23 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030523 Description of problem: (I have no mouth, but I must...nevermind.) I didn't try to create a boot disk, because I didn't really want to botch my install at that point, but if I get a chance to reinstall I will. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Severn beta 1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install on a machine with no floppy drive Actual Results: It asked if I wanted to make a boot floppy. Expected Results: It shouldn't have asked.
What is the model of hardware?
Dual Athlon, 1G RAM, Tyan S2466, TNT2 video. Bag of parts Mk 1, really. Do you want some lspci or other output?
I can't seem to reproduce here. Is it possible that your BIOS is configured to think there is a floppy attached? Also, what install method did you use?
Postinstall, what's the output of 'kudzu -p -b misc'? Also do you have any removable drives (usb, firewire, etc.)?
[root@localhost root]# kudzu -p -b misc [root@localhost root]# No removable media other than the CD, though the motherboard does support USB (no 1394). Last I checked, the BIOS doesn't have any mention of the floppy, but I'll try to get a reboot in today to find out for certain.
Forgot to answer the other of Mike's questions: I used the HTTP install (newly graphical!).
Some hardware appears to have a floppy controller with floppy even though it is not present. I do not know that we can catch all these situations. We appear to handle the case of a legacy free machine with only USB connections that does not have a floppy drive attached correctly.