From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT) Description of problem: During the bootnet install and later using 'mkbootdisk' manually, the system hangs (motherboard/BIOS specific symptoms: power LED flashes, high pitched beeeeeeep, floppy LED lit solid, no response to keyboard, etc). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mkbootdisk: 1.4.2 kernel: 2.4.2-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mkbootdisk 2.4.2-2 (Reproduceable everytime inasmuch as this was only attempted twice - once during the install, and once post-install.) Actual Results: Reboot! Grabbed a second floppy, and mkbootdisk worked flawlessly, so I don't suspect the floppy drive itself. Ran 'mkbadblocks' and 'chkdsk /r' (from NT4) to verify the first floppy disk's integrity. No errors reported, but the latter might have silently fixed the disk. Re-ran mkbootdisk on the first floppy, and it worked. *sigh* It's now no longer reproduceable. Suspect marginal quality media (albeit "name brand"). Expected Results: Should have recovered more gracefully, the first couple of times. Additional info: Error messages: None Hardware: CPU: Athlon TB 1 GHz Mem: 1 Gb SDRAM M/B: Asus A7A266
Sorry, I forgot to re-test this specifically from the shell with mkbootdisk-1.4.8-1 before permanently discarding the bad media. However, the RH8 GUI install did recover, detecting a problem while creating the boot disk on the aforementioned bad media. If the GUI install uses mkbootdisk, then this bug can be closed.