Bug 17765 – kernel panic booting cdrom

Bug 17765 - kernel panic booting cdrom

Summary:	kernel panic booting cdrom

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	alpha Linux

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Assigned To:	Matt Wilson
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Reported:	2000-09-21 07:01 EDT by Gene Czarcinski
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-10-18 11:33:06 EDT
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Description Gene Czarcinski 2000-09-21 07:01:13 EDT

The  system is a KP1000/667 with a cdrom on hda and two scsi disks.

Booting the cdrom results in a kernel panic:

Kernel Panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option.

The SRM command was:

boot dqa0 -fi kernels/vmlinux.gz -fl root=/dev/hda

Using the boot floppies works fine.

Comment 1 Gene Czarcinski 2000-10-11 12:19:15 EDT

Confirmed.  This problem still exists in rc1.

Comment 2 Matt Wilson 2000-10-11 17:39:46 EDT

You are not booting properly.  Use:

boot dqa0 -fl 0

Comment 3 Gene Czarcinski 2000-10-13 06:46:27 EDT

And how is a user suppose to know that they need to boot this way -- devine
inspiration??  At least put something into the README.  The current README says
to look on www.redhat.com for SRM info.  Good luck!

Comment 4 Brock Organ 2000-10-17 17:01:24 EDT

documentation issue aside ... ;)

does the "boot dqa0 -fl 0" allow the install to boot from CD ...?
if not, what level of firmware is on this machine ...?

thanks for your efforts w/this ...

Comment 5 Gene Czarcinski 2000-10-18 10:18:37 EDT

boot dqa0 -fl 0 works!

Sorry I did not make that clear.  The "only" problem now is to tell folks that
this is how to boot.

Comment 6 Brock Organ 2000-10-18 11:33:03 EDT

agreed. We are working with the documentation folks on this ... thanks for your
help!

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