Install CD dumps to busybox after toggling floppy
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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casper (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: casper
This issue occurred with both Alpha 4 and Alpha 5 CDs.
I downloaded the Alpha 5 ISO and MD5summed it, it checked out. Burned the image with Brasero, and rebooted the machine.
This machine is a Gigabyte GA-7NNXP motherboard with a Nvidia FX-5200 card, 1GB RAM, ITE RAID controller, Sil SATA, and an Athlon 2800+ Socket A CPU.
I boot the CD as usual, and it comes up with the language select screen. I select English, and then select Install. It begins to boot the CD, going to the usplash screen with the bar that moves back and forth, where the kernel boots. It then begins to look at my floppy drive. I don't have any disk in it, but it tries to read the non-existent disk 19 times. Immediately afterwards, going to a BusyBox screen with an (initramfs) prompt. I've included a screenshot.
The interesting thing, is that if there IS a floppy in the drive, no matter what floppy, it'll boot. It toggles the floppy a bunch, and then proceeds to boot the CD properly. If I disable the floppy drive in the BIOS, it seems to try to access the drive even though it's disabled, then dumps me back to the same BusyBox prompt.
I've tested this with the Gutsy release CD. It toggles the floppy drive half as many times and slower, but proceeds to boot properly after finding no floppy. Hardy simply dumps to the BusyBox prompt.
('toggling the floppy' meaning an attempt to access the drive, the 'tick-tick' a drive makes when there is no disc)
Changed in casper: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
i have a similar issue, but no floppy drive to test with, and apparently no floppy related errors. looks like the cd root is not mounted.
note that booting the CD itself (not just ISO) in vmware works without a configured floppy.