Bug 81595 - making boot disk fails on good disk
Summary: making boot disk fails on good disk
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 82298
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Depends On:
Blocks: 79579 80605
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-10 23:00 UTC by Mike McLean
Modified: 2008-01-17 17:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:51:06 UTC
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Description Mike McLean 2003-01-10 23:00:06 UTC 
* -re0110.nightly
* nfs gui install
* usb floppy

while trying to make a boot disk in the installer, I get the invalid boot floppy
dialog.  various trials of badblocks insist the floppy is good, and the
kernel+initrd fits with room to spare, but initrd size on VC3 disagrees with the
initrd that is written to the floppy (the one on the floppy is *larger* by 31237
bytes).

note that this is a usb floppy drive.

The floppy fails to boot with a simple "Boot failed" message.
Comment 1 Mike McLean 2003-01-15 22:40:21 UTC 
* -re0115.nightly
* hdiso upgrade from 7.2min

observed with non-usb floppy drive
Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2003-01-28 06:01:21 UTC 
Consolidating

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82298 ***
Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:51:06 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.
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