From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: Install completed successfully, but when restart the machine, after several minutes got error message disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter. MB KT600-A, CPU AMD Sempron 2400+, PC3200 memory 512 mb. WD 80 GB IDE drive. Windows XP installed and runs as good as it can. No problem at all. Win XP was on a seperate SATA drive. Tried twice, either manual partition or auto partition all failed with the same error at reboot. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grub-0.95-3.i386.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Get dvd iso file from http://dowload.atrpms.net/mirrors/fedoracore/3/i386/iso/FC3-i386- DVD.iso 2. Burn it using deepburner, checked out fine. 3. Install on AMD Sempron 2400+ with KT600-A MB, WD 80 GB drive, it completed successfully, at reboot failed with disk boot failure. Actual Results: Won't boot up after install completed. Expected Results: Should boot up. Additional info:
Tied to reinstall the grub: # chroot /mnt/sysimage # grub-install /dev/hda Installation finished. No error reported. This is the content of the device map /boot/grub/device.map. Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script 'grub-install'. # this device map was generated by anaconda (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/hda I have no idea if this right or wrong, so I try to reboot the system, same thing, here is the last 3 lines on the screen after a few minutes: Verifying DMI Pool Data .............. Boot from CD : DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
This means the BIOS isn't trying to boot the hard drive. There are two possibilities -- either the drive isn't in the BIOS's boot list, or the MBR and/or partition aren't flagged as bootable. Do you still have the SATA controller enabled? If you do, it's almost certainly the former of the two problems. Your BIOS can likely only set drives on one controller or the other to be bootable , or possibly it's simply not set up to do so.
Use confirmed BIOS problem in private email. Closing.