Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 5887
dist-point/redhat-6.1/i386/images/boot.img
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:52 EDT
Hello RedHat, No matter where I get the boot.img file, it simply won't fire up. It gets all the way to vmlinuz... and fails (then asks for the boot disk again). The dist-point/redhat-6.1/i386/images/pcmcia.img works just fine. Could this be fixed??? -Robert ------- Additional Comments From 10/13/99 00:05 ------- I'm having the same problem, or nearly the same. I've copied boot.img from a Redhat iso download, and downloaded boot.img by itself, and had similar results w/both on two different machines (P2- 150 machines): somewhere along the install process (usually before the first dialog box but not always) install bombs out with the message "install exited abnormally -- recieved (sic) signal 11". After which "you may safely reboot your system".
I also cannot boot from boot.img which came with my "Red Hat Linux 6.1 for Dummies" CD. Booting from CD is fine, but img which is "rawrite" to floppy will not boot, nor will any other kernals boot from floppy. Get "Linux decompressing.... CRC error" Arrrggggghhhhhh!!!!!! Rumors of patches exist but no clear cut way for the "dummy" like me to fix it (Kernel update for Dummies)
All of these issues are the result of one of two things. Either the boot disk were downloaded via FTP in "text" mode and not in "binary" mode, or the pysical diskette that you are using is corrupt. Here at the office, we boot from these images 50-100 times per day, so I can guarantee that they images themselves are not bad.