Bug 82298 – Install would not create boot diskette

Bug 82298 - Install would not create boot diskette

Summary:	Install would not create boot diskette

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Public Beta
Classification:	Retired
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	phoebe
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jeremy Katz
QA Contact:	Mike McLean
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Duplicates:	81595 82388 82716 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:	79578
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Reported:	2003-01-20 22:01 EST by Gerry Tool
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:50 EDT (History)
CC List:	8 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2003-02-07 18:31:48 EST
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Description Gerry Tool 2003-01-20 22:01:53 EST

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030115

Description of problem:
During Phobbe Beta 2 install, I selected to make a boot diskette.  At the end,
it indicated my boot diskette was not valid, so I should use another.  This
diskette was the one that was successfully used with Phoebe Beta 1.  I inserted
another fresh diskette which I knew to be good, and the same thing happened.  I
then went on without making a boot diskette.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Fresh Install of Phoebe Beta 2
2.Select to make a boot diskette
3.Insert diskette and click on button to start diskette write
    

Actual Results:  Installer claimed diskette was not valid

Expected Results:  Diskette should have been written and install resumed.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2003-01-22 22:48:35 EST

*** Bug 82388 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Elton Woo 2003-01-23 01:50:07 EST

This also happened on my machine when I did a *clean* install of Phoebe2, and
attempted to
create the boot diskette with previously used diskettes (i.e. not "brand-new"
media). I was able
to create the boot diskette with these very same diskette(s) under Phoebe 1.

N.B. my "floppy" is actually an LS-120 superdisk drive attached as Primary
Slave, which
mounts as /dev/hdb. No problems accessing diskettes in Gnome, and under KDE I simply
have to change the properties of the desktop "floppy" icon to point to the
proper device 
instead of /dev/fd0 (the default).

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2003-01-28 00:59:32 EST

*** Bug 82716 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2003-01-28 01:01:23 EST

*** Bug 81595 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Philip Pawley 2003-01-28 15:19:54 EST

Me too. Identical scenario. Tried 3 floppies including one previously unused.

Comment 6 Jeremy Katz 2003-02-03 20:09:06 EST

Fixed with mkbootdisk-1.5.0 and newer kernel

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