From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: mounts ramdisk then says running anaconda bad argument --overhead unknown option exits install How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.restart install 2. 3. Actual Results: mounts ramdisk then says running anaconda bad argument --overhead unknown option exits install Expected Results: correct full install Additional info:
Are you passing in any boot options in or are you just booting off the cd and pressing <Enter>?
i created a bootnet.img install disk. i then run an ftp install from the web. when the routine starts it mounts a ramdisk and then it transfers from the blue screen to a black text srcreen and appears to call either anaconda or anaconda runtime? It them returns the --overhead unknown option - I am not passing it any options -
Can you post the contents of the syslinux.cfg file on the boot floppy that you are using? Something sounds very strange here. Also, did you try installing from a different ftp site?
I did a dd if=bootnet.img of=/dev/fd0, then i ran the install. when i put the boot disk in a different 7.0 box, mount /dev/fdo, cd fd and do a ls -la it doesn't show a syslinux.cfg file
Ok, something is horribly wrong with your boot disk. If there's no syslinux.cfg file, I'm amazed that the system even boots. I did a little experimenting by making a bootnet.img boot disk and then I removed the syslinux.cfg file. When I rebooted the system, I get the syslinux prompt followed by a message: "Could not find kernel image: linux" Sounds like something is wrong with your installation media, since it looks like you made the boot disk correctly...something else must be wrong with the bootnet.img itself.
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
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