Bug 56838 - Unable to boot from the boot floppy on ML 370.
Summary: Unable to boot from the boot floppy on ML 370.
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: mkbootdisk
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matt Wilson
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-11-28 16:58 UTC by Bryan Leopard
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:38 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-02-19 06:41:16 UTC
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Description Bryan Leopard 2001-11-28 16:58:41 UTC
Created a boot floppy during installation of Redhat 7.2 EE. Tried to boot 
up the system with the floppy, got error message--->"ROMDISK: Compressed 
image found at block 0" Unable to boot with the boot floppy.

Hardware:
System - ML370 (P25) 08/28/2001
              1.266GHZ/133MHZ with 512 Kbyte cache
Boot - 5i (firmware 1.60)
controllers: SA532, Adaptec, embedded adaptec

Steps:
1. Install linux redhat 7.2 EE
2. Create a boot floppy.
3. Boot from the floppy, you will see the error.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2003-02-19 06:41:16 UTC
Probably because the floppy didn't actually fit.  We properly warn about this now.


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