[Bug 218437] New: Rescue Floppy Doesn't Work and Won't Fit
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218437 Summary: Rescue Floppy Doesn't Work and Won't Fit Product: SUSE Linux 10.1 Version: Final Platform: 32bit OS/Version: SuSE Linux 10.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: caogdin@deepwoods.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Navigate to Yast2 | System | Boot or Rescue Floppy, select "Rescue Floppy", click "next"; reports "Getting floppy image," then reports "cannot access installation media," specifically naming the path /book/rescuefloppy as "not on media." 1. This makes sense: There is no way a Rescue Floppy will fit on a floppy any more. So, you've removed the file from the disto. 2. The proper command to create a "Rescue CD" is /sbin/mkrescue --iso --size HD which produces a customized file, image.iso, (of about 17 MB...a bit large for a floppy) that can be "burned" to CD. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218437 mhorvath@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |caogdin@deepwoods.com ------- Comment #1 from mhorvath@novell.com 2006-11-10 09:53 MST ------- Please attach your yast logs. http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218437 caogdin@deepwoods.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|caogdin@deepwoods.com | ------- Comment #2 from caogdin@deepwoods.com 2006-11-10 11:18 MST ------- You don't need a log for this issue. Try it yourself on ANY SuSE 10.1 It's a bug. plain and simple. I've been able to update mkrescue and make a CD. It is NOT POSSIBLE to put initrd from SuSE 10.1 (Open, SLES or SLED) on a floppy! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218437 chrubis@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |odabrunz@novell.com |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.com | Status|ASSIGNED |NEW -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218437 aj@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|odabrunz@novell.com |snwint@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218437 snwint@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|snwint@novell.com |yast2-maintainers@suse.de ------- Comment #3 from snwint@novell.com 2006-11-16 03:25 MST ------- The rescue floppy is gone since 10.1, see bug 149451. Please remove that menu item in yast. BTW, Carol, it _is_ possible to start an installation (or rescue system) from floppy. Quite some people seem to actually do it. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218437 emap@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |gs@novell.com AssignedTo|yast2-maintainers@suse.de |sh@novell.com ------- Comment #4 from emap@novell.com 2006-11-16 07:35 MST ------- Stefan, please remove the menue item. Thanks. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218437 sh@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|sh@novell.com |yast2-maintainers@suse.de ------- Comment #5 from sh@novell.com 2006-11-17 11:05 MST ------- That would be in the boot floppy module. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218437 sh@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|yast2-maintainers@suse.de |odabrunz@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218437 stefan.fent@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|odabrunz@novell.com |aosthof@novell.com ------- Comment #6 from stefan.fent@novell.com 2006-12-19 02:20 MST ------- Alex, is this still valid? If Yes, please fix. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218437 aosthof@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED ------- Comment #7 from aosthof@novell.com 2006-12-21 03:22 MST ------- Hmm, in openSUSE 10.2 there is still the option to create a set of rescue floppies, but it still works fine. So, is it really necessary to remove a well running module? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218437 aosthof@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |stefan.fent@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218437 stefan.fent@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Info Provider|stefan.fent@novell.com |aj@novell.com ------- Comment #8 from stefan.fent@novell.com 2007-01-12 03:49 MST ------- Shouldn't we remove the entire bootfloppy module then? I don't think there are too many systems w/o CD/DVD ROM left. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218437 ------- Comment #9 from aj@novell.com 2007-01-12 04:36 MST ------- I'm confused: comment #7 says it works? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218437 aosthof@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|aj@novell.com | ------- Comment #10 from aosthof@novell.com 2007-01-12 09:03 MST ------- I didn't check if one can boot those floppies, but in general the process of creation works. A closer look at the data located on disk 1 shows that there seem to be 19MB of data, which isn't possible physically, but a fake of the fat filesystem on the floppy. Thus, these generated floppies won't work at all. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218437 stefan.fent@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|stefan.fent@novell.com | ------- Comment #12 from stefan.fent@novell.com 2007-01-18 02:04 MST ------- As comment #2 is correct, please remove the menu item from YaST. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218437 aosthof@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |sh@novell.com, emap@novell.com, | |stefan.fent@novell.com Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED ------- Comment #13 from aosthof@novell.com 2007-01-23 05:29 MST ------- Ok, I've removed the menu item for "Boot or Rescue Floppy", so it will not appear anymore in the YaST2 Control Center. The corresponding fix is submitted to SVN. Furthermore, I've removed src/clients/bootfloppy.ycp" and "src/config/bootfloppy.desktop" from SVN and submitted a new package to STABLE. So now one can't even use this module by calling "yast2 bootfloppy" on the command line. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218437 lslezak@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |fsiufanua@novell.com ------- Comment #15 from lslezak@novell.com 2007-04-13 00:28 MST ------- *** Bug 263868 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
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