Bug 68382 - Mkbootdisk failed because initrd too big
Summary: Mkbootdisk failed because initrd too big
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: limbo
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks: 67218
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-09 18:15 UTC by James Manning
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:44 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-02-26 18:04:20 UTC
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Description James Manning 2002-07-09 18:15:30 UTC
not sure what happened, just noticed this on my vt5 during install:

grub> install /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 p (hd0,2)/grub/grub.conf

grub> 
gzip: stdout: No space left on device

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-07-09 19:36:58 UTC
Are any of your filesystems full?  If so, which?  Trying to think what uses gzip
that late

Comment 2 James Manning 2002-07-09 20:15:22 UTC
[root@localhost root]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/Volume00/LogVol00
                      1.9G  1.5G  403M  79% /
/dev/hda3              99M  9.5M   84M  11% /boot
/dev/Volume00/LogVol01
                      484M  8.1M  451M   2% /home
none                   58M     0   57M   0% /dev/shm


course, this is post-install - nothing looked "full" at the time, but I didn't
keep the df output from during-install :/

It semi-felt like it was related to bootdisk creation, but I could be on crack again

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2002-07-09 22:33:40 UTC
Ah, yeah, that would be it.  Dupe of another about LVM + boot disk not fitting

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2002-08-22 05:39:29 UTC
We tell you if the boot disk isn't going to fit now, although we can't do much
more for a variety of different reasons.  Better fix coming to a future release

Comment 5 Jeremy Katz 2003-02-26 18:04:20 UTC
We nicely tell you now and have some other tweaks to make this at least somewhat
better with rawhide


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