From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2smp i686) Description of problem: Booting from a boot.img created floppy causes the machine to crash if a cdrom is attached. The board is a Versalogic VSBC7 with an AMD 550MHz cpu Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.create boot floppy from boot.img; plug in cdrom to either ide controller 2.boot machine 3. Actual Results: "oops" message and installer quits before ever prompting the user for any info. It never reaches GUI mode Expected Results: We should've been able to install 7.2 from the CD-ROM, but instead had to unplug the CD-ROM drive and do an NFS install. Additional info: We tried three different CD-ROMs - same problem. We also tried ide=nodma, and the noprobe flag, as well as things like hdc=cdrom. Nothing worked. The only solution is to unplug the drive from the IDE connector. The CD-ROM drives also aren't recognized during a normal boot of a completed "server" installation. RedHat 7.1 boots fine from boot.img floppy and recognizes CD-ROM for installation purposes.
Try booting with 'linux noathlon'. Does that help?
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Booting with "linux noathlon" does not help.