From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 Description of problem: On attempting to boot from CD, syslinux complains about a badly broken BIOS, and nothing more happens (no kernel loads, etc). Booting from floppy, no problems. NB: This system has been booted from many other CD's; Knoppix works just fine, for example, and I installed Mandrake on it some time ago with no need to boot from floppy. So it seems to be something about this particular syslinux version.... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Make sure Fedora Core 1 CD is in CDROM drive, no boot floppy in the floppy drive 2. Turn on computer Actual Results: One or two lines (can't recall, and don't have system here) showing SYSLINUX and "badly broken BIOS" and at that point system is locked up Expected Results: kernel should load, and installation process should start. The BIOS on the FV24 (this is the flex-atx motherboard in Shuttle's first small-form-factor bare-bones system) can't be _that_ broken, can it? Additional info:
Yes, the BIOS can very much be "_that_ broken". That's why that message exists.