Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 79486
Installer crashes when mkbootdisk and mkinitrd aren't selected
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:06:52 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux) Description of problem: In a 'select individual packages' install I can deselect the mkbootdisk and mkinitrd packages but later on in the installation, when apparently these packages are needed by the installation procedure (for creating a bootdisk I presume), the installer crashes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start installing Redhat AS21 2. Choose the 'select individual packages' method 3. Deselect 'mkbootdisk' and/or 'mkinitrd' 4. Check the 'create bootdisk' option 5. Proceed installation Actual Results: The installer crashes Expected Results: Installer should have finished Additional info:
The current code base makes sure that you install things which are required for later in the installation
confirmed. Certain critical packages are not optional even when selecting individual packages -- grub for example (at least when using grub as the boot loader). mkbootdisk is not one of those packages, but the installer handles things gracefully when mkbootdisk is absent. closing->rawhide