Description of Problem: IDE support missing in bootdisk images downloaded from net How Reproducible: very Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download boot.img from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.1/en/os/i386/images/ 2. Insert blank floppy into linux box. 3. dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k 4. Boot machine to install linux on from above floppy, and try to install. 5. (Similar results with bootnet.img, pcmcia.img) Actual Results: Machine is unable to access IDE hard drives. Presumably can't access ATAPI cd-roms as well, but less able to test (was attempting to do a net boot, so did not have a known good cd available). boot.img would get to selection of source device, if select hard drive it complains that no hard drives in the system (which contained an IDE drive). Selecting cd-rom also failed, probably due to lack of ATA support, but may have been a questionable disk. bootnet.img and pcmcia.img (both set for NFS install) would fail shortly after anaconda started, after select keyboard and language, presumably just as screen on how to partition disk comes up. boot.img, bootnet.img were tested on Pentium III Dell optiplex, with a working hard drive. pcmcia.img tested on an old Pentium P75 latitude. Creating a bootable disk using vmlinuz and initrd.img from boot/pxenet directory of the 7.1 tree succeeded in finding the hard drive on the optiplex, confirming that was not failed or obscure hardware. That disk did not have the PCMCIA support needed for the latitude, but the latitude had been running RH 6 before this, so again unlikely to be hardware failure and not obscure hardware. Expected Results: To be able to see the hard drive in order to look for install images or to install to. Additional Information: Presumably, the actual boot floppies distributed in shrink wrap sales have a different image on them.
no, the image is very much the same. What is the failure once you get to the NFS based install?
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