Bug 69776 - kickstart with bootnet.img does not find SCSI disks
Summary: kickstart with bootnet.img does not find SCSI disks
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-25 09:38 UTC by Georg Baumann
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:44 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-08-02 18:45:33 UTC
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the kickstart file I used (1.76 KB, text/plain)
2002-07-25 09:42 UTC, Georg Baumann
no flags Details

Description Georg Baumann 2002-07-25 09:38:49 UTC
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Description of problem:
when using bootnet.img to do a kickstart installation, then the installer will not load the aic7xxx module; when doing a graphical install with the same diskette, then aic7xxx is loaded automatically

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create boot disk from bootnet.img
2. boot SCSI system with this disk
3. start with "linux ks" (or with "linux ks=floppy" if a ks.cfg
   has been copied to it)
 

Actual Results:  ERROR: no valid devices were found on which to create new filesystems

Expected Results:  successfull installation; with RH 7.2 this did work without any problems

Additional info:

when doing a standard installation instead of "kickstart", then everything works fine (with the same boot floppy)

Comment 1 Georg Baumann 2002-07-25 09:42:29 UTC
Created attachment 67004 [details]
the kickstart file I used

Comment 2 Georg Baumann 2002-07-29 14:39:20 UTC
 Found the problem: this was not a bug in loading the SCSI driver, but I 
forgot to update my kickstart file. It still did point to an image of RedHat 
7.2 instead of 7.3. But the error message "no valid devices were found on 
which to create new filesystems" was very confusing! Now I corrected the 
pointer and everything works fine. 
 
I.e. the only bug is showing a misleading error message. 


Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2002-08-02 20:30:31 UTC
This is why current releases now double-check a timestamp file and verify that
they match if it exists on both images.  Unfortunately, we can't change legacy
behavior of the boot disks.  And the message is completely valid that we don't
have any block devices to install to.


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