Our DSA team has discovered that the loadlin in Gingin is failing their installation. DSA creates a small partition on the harddrive, copies all the necessary files & images to that partition, and reboot to it. When it boots to install, loadlin displays a punch of dotts and reset the screen (I guess here is where it calls the vmlinuz) and hangs. This setup had worked fine with all the previous Red Hat release. ---------- Action by: tmichael Issue Registered ---------- Action by: notting Fixed with upgrade to loadlin-1.6c; should be fixed in B5 drop. Status set to: Waiting on Client ---------- Action by: ltroan Escalated to Bugzilla DID NOT ESCALATE AS BILL NOTTINGHAM SAYS BELIEVE FIXED IN BETA 5. ---------- Action by: tmichael With beta5, the installations goes a little further but fails when it gets to /sbin/loader. DSA team saw this on several IDE systems and aren't sure about SCSI systems yet. Status set to: Waiting on Tech ---------- Action by: mdomsch SCSI systems seem OK, IDE systems fail. ---------- Action by: tmichael Additional info: Installed RH8.0 on the failing systems, copied vmlinuz and initrd.img of Gingin from dosutils/autoboot to /boot, edited grub.conf and booted with this new grub entry, and the installation passed the stage where Gingin was failing. ---------- Action by: mdomsch So we believe this is still a loadlin problem. ISSUE TRACKER 15443 OPENED BY DELL AS SEV 1 (WANT FIXED PRIOR TO GINGIN SHIP)
I presume you are using kickstart? If so could you attach the ks file, as well as any other configuration file(s) and failure messages (VC3 can be helpful to look at once the loader has failed).
FROM ISSUE TRACKER Event posted 02-21-2003 05:47pm by tmichael with duration of 0.00 I was just told this is also failing in Ares, a SCSI system. When it fails, it isn't even getting the ks.cfg. Here is how we call loadlin: loadlin vmlinz initrd=initrd.img ks=hd:hda1/Linux/ks.cfg ramdisk_size=8192 Depending on the platform, we might add 'noapic' & 'ide=nodma' to the above parameters. All the necessary files such as initrd.img, ks.cfg, vmlinuz, loadlin,... are in the booting partition.
Any update here? We would like to have the fixed loadlin before gingin goes gold so we can verify this issue is fixed. We must have this issue fixed for gingin.
We no longer ship loadlin in the distribution and thus this isn't overly relevant for current releases.