Bug 129149

Summary:	Anaconda reverses BIOS Boot device settings.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David M Burgess <burgedm>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Version:	2	CC:	nobody+pnasrat
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Description David M Burgess 2004-08-04 14:34:52 UTC

Description of problem: Anaconda resets BIOS boot device settings.

How reproducible: Everytime.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set BIOS to boot from DVD then Harddrive
2. Perform normal installation
3. Go into BIOS when system reboots.

Actual results: PC comes up configured to boot from Harddrive then 
DVD.

Expected results: Should have come up configured to boot from DVD 
then Harddrive.

Additional info:  This happens everytime, with Fedora Core 2 for i686 
(32 bit) and ia64 (64 bit), it also happens with Core 3 Test 1.

It happens with every version of the BIOS (I've tried them all).

The hardware is an ASUS K8V SE Deluxe MB with AMD 3000+, 1G RAM, 
Matrox G550 video, LiteOn DVD, Maxtor 36G EIDE HD.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-08-04 15:11:52 UTC

anaconda's not changing this... there's no programatic way to tell a
BIOS to make this change (unfortunately).

Comment 2 David M Burgess 2004-08-04 15:20:55 UTC

Then perhaps you can explain why it's only Anaconda that does this.

It will not happen any other time - only when Anaconda runs, never 
before or after.

Winbloze installs just fine.