Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 9131
anaconda installation fix fails...boot image has bugs
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:54 EDT
Graphical or text is irrlevant. Anaconda boot load fails at '5 dots' into vmlinuz loading. What more can I say? (Got anaconda because original installation fails. Problem there is installation script expects to encounter an ext2 file system on hda1 and when it does not, it just fails. My ext2 partitions are 5 through 10. I opened a virtual console and mounted them before I got to this point on another try, but still got the same failure - no ext2 file system on hda1) Went to your web sight - updates & errata/bug fixes and saw the anaconda installer bug fix. Problem descriptions looked like they might cover my problem so I downloaded boot-RHEA-1999:044.img to c:\redhat\boot.img and used rawrite to extract to an MS-DOS floppy. Did same (on a separate diskette) for updates-RHEA-1999:045.img > c:\redhat\updates.img. As I say above, it fails. Boot screen comes up ok, I type 'linux updates text' at boot prompt, installation starts, but vmlinuz loading dies. System is NCR 3272 p3 500 MHz machine. 64 Mb Ram 8 Gb internal disk 3 Gb external disk Adaptec AHA2940-AU SCSI card Intelexpress ethernet RH6.0 installed clean. Wish upgrading were as easy as install. Regards.
When you get the prompt to select the boot mode, try typing... text root=/dev/hda5 ...and see if that fixes it.
Rawrite cannot be used to create updates images, as the update image is an ext2 filesystem, and rawrite does not support that. Try using your existing linux setup to create the boot images and all should be well.