Bug 58717 - installation requires /boot and / partitions
Summary: installation requires /boot and / partitions
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: aboot
Version: 7.3
Hardware: alpha
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Alexandre Petit-Bianco
QA Contact: Beth Uptagrafft
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-01-23 18:22 UTC by harry.heinisch
Modified: 2005-10-31 22:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-02-13 18:12:10 UTC
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Description harry.heinisch 2002-01-23 18:22:42 UTC
Description of Problem: installation on Alpha now seems to require both a /boot
and a / (root) partition. installation to a single / (root) partition is no
longer possible (worked fine under RH 7.1). If the install is told to proceed
without a /boot partition, installation will be nearly complete, and then bomb
out in anaconda somewhere, leaving the aboot bootstrap uninstalled, as well as
no XFree86 configuration file(s).


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How Reproducible: always 


Steps to Reproduce: 
1. during setup of partitions, manually set only / (root) and swap
2. proceed with install
3. watch it crash at the end

Actual Results:


Expected Results: it should be possible to install to a single root partition


Additional Information: this is not really an aboot problem, but there don't
appear to be any legal "Component" choices for:

	disk druid
	fdisk
	installation (general)

any of which would be more descriptive.

Comment 1 harry.heinisch 2002-01-23 21:20:58 UTC
This technique of creating a small /boot partition for holding the kernel(s)
to be booted, is a hold-over from previous releases which used an older (v0.7)
of aboot, which had a limitation on how far a kernel could be from the start of
the partition. This limitation no longer exists with aboot v0.9a which is
part of the alpha-7.2-beta1 installation.

Comment 2 Beth Uptagrafft 2002-02-13 18:12:04 UTC
Fixed and will be in next delivery.

Comment 3 Beth Uptagrafft 2002-03-13 14:51:21 UTC
I'm closing this case because it was fixed in the Feb 22 delivery.  Please let 
us know if you still see any problems with this issue.


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