Bug 110465 - will not load from CD on Shuttle FV24, complains about BIOS
Summary: will not load from CD on Shuttle FV24, complains about BIOS
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: syslinux
Version: 1
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-11-19 19:03 UTC by Martin Gelfand
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-03-09 20:28:15 UTC
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Description Martin Gelfand 2003-11-19 19:03:40 UTC
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:

Comment 1 Peter Jones 2006-03-09 20:28:15 UTC
Yes, the BIOS can very much be "_that_ broken".  That's why that message exists.


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