Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 50583
bad: no bootable floppy
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:35:22 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt) Description of problem: How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.i log as root , type mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.4.3-12 2.messages from mkbootdisk: msdos not supported vfat not supported 3.message from mkbootdisk: mksdofs Actual Results: my floppy is in format dos (i am not sure) but lost+found doesn't exist, all files are are in runnable permissions. and the floppy isn't bootable Expected Results: on floppy : the directorys dev etc boot lost+found and an kernel's image vmlinux.2.4.3-12 Additional info:
Did you just upgrade the kernel version using rpm -Uvh?
I upgrade the kernel with rpm -Fvh kernel* withe the rpm about kernel and headers not src.
I confirm by changing the release from 7.1 to 7.0 of mkbootdisk, I have solved my problem with the floppy (by checking the trace i saw that mkbootdisk(7.0) calls mke2fs not mkdosfs), the bug comes from mkbootdisk
what happened is you upgraded your kernel and the kernel then couldn't find the modules it needed (as they had been removed along with the old kernel!) you should never install a kernel with -F or -U; always use -i, boot it, and then remove the old one.