From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040117 Description of problem: Not allowed to 'Change Boot Order' to avoid having Grub install to the MBR of an incorrect drive(i.e. SCSI/IDE combo where BIOS switches to SDA on boot as first-disk, yet Grub installs to MBR of IDE drive(ASUS P2B-S using aic7xxx controller)). This is not a problem with the Graphical install since you are given this option to change boot-order from the Advanced screen of the Boot Loader section. Obviously, I prefer the Text-Mode install since it takes less time over FTP to load and I am faster at keyboard. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Advance through text-mode install to choice of which drive to install MBR onto. 2. If an IDE drive is present and detected as the 'first' device, then not able to manually override as BIOS will upon next boot. 3. Actual Results: Not able to select 'sda' instead 'hdd' , etc... Expected Results: Option to change boot-order like in Advanced section of Graphical installer MBR choices. Additional info:
The text mode install is only for cases where it's necessary and not the primary and preferred form of installation. It's not going to support all of the same features as the graphical installation.