Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 53004
Installation-Bootdisk hangs with
Last modified: 2008-08-01 12:22:51 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 Description of problem: Whatever i coose at the boot-prompt "loading vmlinuz..." appears and then the floppy makes a rattering noise for some seconds after that "Boot failed: please change disks and press any key to continue" appers. Similar to Bug# 51445 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Creating Bootdisk with "dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0" 2.Booting with this disk Actual Results: Installation bootdisks of other Linux versions and other OSs work fine. I have even changed the floppy drive but it didn't help. Expected Results: Beginnig of installation process ... Additional info: My computer is a Digital Celebris GL 5166ST. Pentium 166 Processor. Chipset unknown, "Intel" with Northbridge 82437FX and Southbridge 82371FB. On-board SCSI-controller AIC7850, but this bug is different to those in the "7.1 gotchas".
I've seen this a few times with a bad floppydisk. Did you try another one ?
Yes, I tried several disks and even another disk drive. And bootdisks that didn't work with that computer did with another one. So I suppose it's something with the kernel on the bootdisk?
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