Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 5578
Bootnet.img does not creat rescue disk
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:52 EDT
I used bootnet.img to update from 6.0 to 6.1. The installer did not make a rescue disk. This is very annoying when you have a dual boot NT/linux system and use the NT loader. (In that case you need the rescue disk for the first boot...)
*** Bug 5833 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** First of all: applaus for 6.1's easy, user-friendly install! Imho, with some more finetuning and more PnP supported devices detection a la Win98, and availibility of good Office Suites like Applixware that can read Word and Excel files, Linux will definitately conquer the user desktop. Now the problem: my 6.0 system was dual-boot Win98 and RedHat 6.0, the switch in a [multi] config.sys with Linux booted by loadlin.exe. Reason: I have >1024 cylinders and I cannot use Lilo well. Now during the "automatic upgrade", the installer does everything very ok, however it did not give me the oppurtunity to make a boot disk (with the working kernel), and just installed lilo in the mbr. Hence I had a system that I, in principle, could not boot: fortunately, after fdisk /mbr, and booting the older kernel from 6.0, it still worked (with lots of boot errors), I got a prompt and immediately copied the new /boot/vmlinuz-bla kernel to my C: (/dos/linuximg on /dev/hdax). I would recommend giving users an option to create a bootdisk (which can come in handy, anyways) during the installation... (you may want to give some hints as to to use loadlin.exe) (if i've missed this option in the upgrade selection (clicked Ok too soon), i am terribly sorry) Kind regards, Eric Maryniak
*** Bug 5730 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** When upgrading from 6.0 to 6.1 in a dual-boot system lilo was reconfigured with boot=/dev/hda, while originally was boot=/dev/hda5. ------- Additional Comments From Ville.Sulko@tpo.fi 10/11/99 10:44 ------- In addition, upgrade does not preserve special configurations in lilo.conf, such as mine 'disk=/dev/sda bios=0x81, disk=/dev/sdb bios=0x80' [yes, it's stupid not to have the lowest SCSI-ID as the boot-disk, but this one is like it is for historic reasons]. This rendered the system unbootable after upgrade. Fortunately I was able to fix it using just the bootable RH61 CD, but the fact that the original lilo.conf wasn't even preserved as lilo.conf.rpmsave made the fix a bit harder, since I didn't remember the correct syntax for those configuration lines...
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*** Bug 6626 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** You *REALLY* to prompt the user before installing LILO information over an existing LILO configuration. Why not look at the MBR to see whether LILO information is already in place, then prompt the user? By the way, I REALLY like the new GUI install! Keep up the good work. ------- Additional Comments From jturner@redhat.com 11/02/99 11:09 ------- *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5576 ***These issues with lilo config during an upgrade are fixed in the latest errata images available at support.redhat.com/errata