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Bug 106
Summary: | Can not do a nfs/network/hard disk install with an LS-120 | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | night |
Component: | installer | Assignee: | Matt Wilson <msw> |
Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 5.2 | CC: | bizjak, chris, icecep, szi |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2000-04-14 20:26:18 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
night
1998-11-17 16:27:32 UTC
For the time being this is "not supported" Because my Linux bootable floppy got corrupted, I can no longer access any of my Linux partitions after my MBR got nuked. This is very sad. RedHat should not behaive like a certain Monopolist MBR-nuking company in Redmond Washington and take more concern for those of us who use LS-120 or Zip disks as our bootable media. If it were at least possible for the user to at least specify the drive from which to load the rescue disk at boot up, this would not be a problem. Maybe I should change your boot code myself to optionally get the boot drive from a kernel parameter. What's more, if I boot from CDROM, it still expects to find a rescue disk on my 5 1/2" drive, even though an image rescue disk already exists on the CD. :( This situation leaves me no choice but (thanks to the fact that RedHat does NOT have a monopoly on Linux distributions) to seek out another vender for my Linux needs. I am very disappointed in your attitude on this issue indeed. :( We are trying to work un an acceptable solution for upcoming releases to handle this since it is becoming more common. Sadly it still occurs in 6.0. I have assigned to to a developer for further review. *** Bug 3196 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I have a new Winbook XL2 notebook which has a ATAPI LS-120 Superdisk floppy (120 MB and compatible with 1.44 MB). It does not have a traditional floppy drive (kernel bootup msg: "floppy0: no floppy controllers found"). It can boot off the bootnet floppy fine, but if I want to do an install that requires a supplemental disk (e.g., network install that requires PCMCIA devices), install will ONLY attempt to mount /dev/fd0, never /dev/hdd, which was the original boot device. A simple fix would be, upon failure to mount fd0, to ask the user to mount from a list of detected devices. *** Bug 3908 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** My computer has only LS-120 SuperDisk IDE ATAPI floppy disk drive. When I want to make a boot diskette (when asked by installer) installer hangs, because there is no /dev/fd0 device. However, answering "no" to above mentioned question, installation continues with no other problems at all. There should be some sort of warning, that installer could not make boot diskette on /dev/fd. Eventualy - installer should make boot floppy on /dev/hdX This bug can also affect other ATAPI connected floppy drives, ZIP drives and drives, connected thru parallel port. Hope you will find this bug report useful! *** Bug 2205 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** hi could you please re-enable the possibility to install to ls120 disk4s ? (i compiled a kernel with ide-floppy support and commented 1 line in your installer code and succeeded) an additional change has to be made with the lilo-installer you need the parameters disk /dev/hdc (if the ls120 is secondary master) bios 0x00 in lilo.conf and you have to install the stuff to /dev/hdc (not hdc1) .. 2) please let someone chose to dis/enable ALL packages (at least in expert mode) to reduce the minimal install size of redhat see ya. ------- Additional Comments From dkl 05/07/99 14:15 ------- Thank you for the suggestions. It has been assigned to a developer for further review.*** Bug 3506 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I tried to install RH 6.0 via NFS on a system with LS120. The kernel, that is in the bootnet.img file, does not support ide-floppy. I solved that problem by creating a new kernel. But with the new kernel I can access the LS120 during installation (on the second virtual console), but the install program does not find it as /dev/hda. It searches for SCSI disk, does not find any and says, that my system has no harddisk. I have created the devices for hda1-9 by hand, but that does not solve the problem. How can I install RH 6.0 on a LS120??? Further information: I did a network installation via a PXE bios. I took the initrd image and the kernel from the network boot disk and installed them on a tftp server. The kernel was booted via bpbatch. RH 6.0 does not use a second floppy. That is very important, because the computer has no floppy and all modules have to be in the initrd image or have to be loaded from the NFS server. Have put this on a list of features for future releases. The original problem listed here is that you couldn't load the supp.img disk with an LS210. We no longer need supp.img, so FTP/HTTP/Hard Drive installs are possible on a LS120 drive. Further LS120 support will be in future versions of Red Hat Linux, but the original problem in this bug was fixed in 6.1 Better LS-120 support will be available in our next release. It should use /dev/hda during the install properly, and write out a correct fstab. |