Bug 124635 - Installation CD does not boot using SCSI CDROM
Summary: Installation CD does not boot using SCSI CDROM
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: anaconda
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-05-28 02:03 UTC by akopps
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-06-01 18:59:03 UTC
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Description akopps 2004-05-28 02:03:13 UTC 
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Description of problem:
The RHEL 3.0 WS update 2 CD1 fails to boot on a PC with a SCSI CD-ROM
drive. On boot, I see the following two lines on my screen:

isolinux: loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it
isolinux: Failed to locate CD-ROM device; boot failed.

The SCSI adapter is Adaptec 2940. The CDROM drive is being reported by
Linux as: 

  Vendor: NEC       Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:464  Rev: 1.04
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02

This system is very old (Pentium 2 class) and it used to boot just
fine using RedHat Linux 7.3 installation CDROM. I have tested the CD1
on other systems with IDE CDROM drives and it seems to work fine there.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attempt to boot the installation CD1 on the system
2.
3.
    

Actual Results:  boot fails with the above messages

Expected Results:  the installation program should have started.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-06-01 18:59:03 UTC 
This is a BIOS bug on your system.  Please upgrade the BIOS and this
will work.
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