Bug 21197
| Summary: | kickstart install fails on alpha cpu system | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | harry.heinisch |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jay Turner <jturner> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | CC: | srevivo |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | alpha | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-02-21 18:57:28 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This is a dupe of bug 19384. Thank you for the test case, it will help us diagnose this issue. Assigning to a QA engineer to test. |
Kick start fails on lastest Alpha 7.0 image (worked on previous 7.0 beta) target disk has 3 partitions hda1(swap) hda2(ext2) hda3(ext2) Alpha DS10 (alpha cpu) ######### captured from install dump --Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1030, in run rc = apply (step[1](), step[2]) File "/var/tmp/anaconda- 7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/textw/partitioning_text.py", line 134, in __call__ todo.lilo.allowLiloLocationConfig(todo.fstab) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/lilo.py", line 124, in allowLiloLocationConfig if bootDevice[0:2] == "md": TypeError: unsliceable object Local variables in innermost frame: fstab: <fstab.NewtFstab instance at 120484760> self: <lilo.LiloConfiguration instance at 12044c6b0> bootDevice: None ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed> ----- ks.cfg being run ---- # Kick Start for Alpha Servers # jj 20-Nov-2000 # #### Select a language lang en_US #### Install from cd-rom cdrom #### Keyboard to use keyboard us #### Use the partitions created by the Alpha Jump-start CD partition /boot --onpart hda2 partition / --onpart hda3 #### Install is the default but.. install #### mouse type mouse --emulthree genericps/2 #### timezone selection timezone US/Eastern #### start of with xconfig skipx #xconfig --server "3DLabs" --monitor "Generic06" #### Set root password rootpw Compaq #### Setup secirity autorization auth --useshadow --enablemd5 #### Packages to install %packages @ Server #@ GNOME #@ KDE #### Post install cleanup %post --nochroot # add comment to /etc/motd echo "Kickstart-installed Red Hat Linux `/bin/date`" > /etc/motd