Bug 77640 - RH8.0 pcmcia.img not working properly for Toshiba Portege 3440ct
Summary: RH8.0 pcmcia.img not working properly for Toshiba Portege 3440ct
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 8.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-11-11 09:07 UTC by Henrik Vedel
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-01-03 07:38:19 UTC
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Description Henrik Vedel 2002-11-11 09:07:05 UTC
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Description of problem:
Trying to install RH 8.0 on a Toshiba Portege 3440ct booting from a usb-floppy
drive and with a pcmcia connected cdrom the booting starts
ok, but after answering the questions about language during installation 
and keybord the install program offers only a hard drive installation
(asking for  the partition on which the images/packages are located).

Notice, the very same installation procedure worked no problem for
RH 7.3.  I have tried also with a downloaded pcmcia.img and verified
the problem is not due to a particualar problem with the pcmcia.img 
copied from the cd-set.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pcmcia.img from RH8.0 cd1


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Reboot laptop with pcmcia.img in usb-floppy drive and rh cd 1 in pcmcia cdrom
drive
2.Answer install questions (graphics/text, language, keybord)
3.Program asks for partition on harddisk with install software.
	

Actual Results:  Installation had to stop.

Expected Results:  Boot program should either identify the pcmcia cdrom itself
or ask
for the pcmciadd.img. (pcmcia.img offering a harddrive install is
absurd).

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-11-12 21:37:31 UTC
Are there any messages on tty3 or tty4 about finding the pcmcia controller?

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2003-01-03 07:38:19 UTC
Closing due to inactivity.  If you have any further information to add to this
bug, please feel free to reopen it.


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