[20466] in Athena Bugs
problem the new (beta) I/S ALS installer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Cavin)
Tue Jul 9 16:00:37 2002
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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 16:00:34 -0400
From: Tom Cavin <cavin@MIT.EDU>
To: Athena Bugs list <bugs@mit.edu>
Cc: Tom Cavin <cavin@mit.edu>
Hi,
I'm having a problem with the ALS installer.
The behavior that I get is that the POST stuff goes (for a long time) and
then I get a boot prompt welcoming me to MITs RedHat installer. I hit
return at the boot prompt and it loads initrc.d and vmlinux starts to bring
a system up and then pops into the RedHat installer and asks me to tell it
where the media is. The only choice given is "Local CDROM".
From what I understand, the installer should not need local installation
media under normal circumstances.
The floppy I'm using is the athena.img in:
$ ls -l /mit/bootkit/rhlinux/
total 2973
-rw-r----- 1 3622 mit 16896 May 17 2000 3c905c-tpo.fl
-rw------- 1 9796 mit 16896 Feb 5 2000 3c90x.fl
-r-------- 1 9796 mit 2126 May 31 18:58 INSTRUCTIONS
drwx------ 2 9796 mit 2048 May 31 18:58 RCS
-rw------- 1 9796 mit 1474560 May 29 17:41 athena.img
-rw------- 1 9796 mit 1529856 Jun 5 18:31 athena.iso
The beginning of the process does claim to be the RedHat 7.3 installer.
This is on a Dell PowerEdge 2650. (Two CPUs, SCSI disk, 3 NICs. I can dig
up more specs if necessary.) The system is currently loaded with Dell's
version of RedHat Linux.
Is this behavior normal? If so, what should it be telling me? Do I need
to use special drivers or anything?
Thanks,
--Tom
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