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Bug 202446

Summary: RHEL3.8 rescue mode fails to drop into shell
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Kent Pirkle <kent.pirkle>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 3.8CC: pasteur
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Description Kent Pirkle 2006-08-14 15:01:17 UTC 
Description of problem: This is being tested in a VMWare Server 1.0 environment.
While booting RHEL3 x86 3.8 CD1 into rescue mode, the system fails to drop to
the shell aftet mounting the filesystems. Booting from a RHEL3.7 CD1 works fine.

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Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot from RHEL3.8 CD1
2.Enter linux rescue
3.select continue at the mount filesystems prompt
  
Actual results:

System reboots after anaconda error

Expected results:

drop into shell

Additional info:
Comment 1 Kent Pirkle 2006-08-14 15:01:18 UTC 
Created attachment 134144 [details]
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Comment 2 Xixi 2006-10-02 22:52:15 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 209015 ***
Comment 3 Miguel Tabanez 2007-01-04 12:56:46 UTC 
I have the same problem