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Bug 16927

Summary: boot failed when starting up 6.2 installer with floppy disk
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Chika Kato <c_kato>
Component: installerAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 6.2CC: c_kato
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Description Chika Kato 2000-08-25 09:17:44 UTC 
When I started up RedHat 6.2 installer with the floppy which was attached 
to the package, the installer stopped with the message as follows;

boot:[ENTER]
Loading
Boot failed:please change disks and press a key to continue

There are no other disks to proceed the installation.
In fact, if I use CD-ROM to boot the installer, it worked fine.

After the installation (with CD-ROM), I checked floppy device by mounting 
some floppy disks, and it worked fine.

I suspended that it might be a error of boot.img that I got, so I made 
another boot floppy by boot.img in the CD-ROM; it caused the same error as 
before.

I downloaded boot.img from the following URL and made another floppy.
http://www.redhat.com/jp/support/errata/RHBA-2000010-01.html
but it changed nothing.

My machine is
COMPAQ presario 3571

Please let me know what can cause this.
Thanks
Comment 1 Chika Kato 2000-08-25 09:18:53 UTC 
Created attachment 2958 [details]
floppy installer boot
Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2000-08-29 16:36:16 UTC 
This is most certainly a bad floppy drive, controller, or media. The boot image
the CDROM uses to boot is
practically identical to the floppy image.