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Re: 4.0 Boot Disk (RH can you read this? )
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donnie Barnes)
Fri Nov 1 12:59:18 1996
To: Pedro Soria-Rodriguez <sorrodp@ece.WPI.EDU>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 01 Nov 1996 12:20:47 EST."
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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 12:56:49 -0500
From: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
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>
> Hmmm... since the boot disk was produced by Red Hat i would like to know
> if you guys at RH have any thoughts on this problem:
>
> The installation boot disk freezes, at one point (after looking for the
> CD-ROM and finding it). I looked at the other virtual consoles and the
> one on F4 shows that my Adaptec 2940 was recognized with no problem, as
> well as the HD, and the CD-ROM. It also saw my current 3.0.3 partitions
> on the HD.
> But on the other console, this is what I get:
>
> * ... [previous stuff] ...
> * creating directory /tmp rc = -1
> * creating directory /tmp/rhimage rc = 0
> * makeing device /scd0 (11,0) as /tmp/scd0 (That's my CD-ROM)
> * calling mount (/tmp/scd0, /tmp/rhimage, iso9660, -1058209791, (nil))
> * removing device file /tmp/scd0
This is normal...it doesn't need the device once it's mounted.
> * error in exec of second stage loader :-(
> error: Permission Denied.
>
> Why does it remove the cd-rom drive device file? what is the permission
> denied for? The CD-ROM i am using is one that i recorded myself from the
> rh4.0 disttribution from the ftp site. I can access the contents of the
> CD-ROM with no problem from RH 3.0.3 (as root only).
> This is happening to me with all the boot disks i found in the
> redhat ftp site.
Chances are that you didn't burn everything correctly. You need the
entire contents of the CD for the most part, with RedHat/instimage
being the most important. Either you don't have it, or you don't
have the permissions set correctly for install2 to execute.
--Donnie
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