Bug 2763 – Making boot disk fails

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Bug 2763 - Making boot disk fails

Summary:	Making boot disk fails

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	installer (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	All Linux

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Reported:	1999-05-12 10:15 EDT by Joe Ceklosky
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-08-27 19:08:38 EDT
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Description Joe Ceklosky 1999-05-12 10:15:27 EDT

When installing from a floppy based boot disk, 6.0 fails to
write out the kernel image to a floppy.  I manually dd'ed
out the kernel during the install.  My guess it that it's
doing the following, which is WRONG:

dd if=/mnt/boot/vmwhater of=/dev/fd0

where it should be:

dd if=/mnt/boot/vmwhatever of=/mnt/dev/fd0

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-08-27 19:08:59 EDT

this is fixed in the latest mkbootdisk in Raw Hide, IIRC.

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