From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 Description of problem: If OEM vendors must configure hardware BIOS/firmware settings in a particular way it would be extremely helpful to our customers if this information is disclosed up front and an explanation/description of why the settings are necessary. This could also help our OEM partners avoid unnecessary support calls. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.Depends on whether BIOS/Firmware settings need to be changed. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional info: For an example; when a certain Vendor shipped hardware as part of the certification process the partner TAM could not get the system to boot. During a conference call it was mentioned that the BIOS needed to be "tweaked" to allow for a Linux booting.
Yang Kun, you wanna do some research on this, I guess probably in the info test part, is possible to list all the BIOS settings?
To David Mair: Can you please give us an example that user must change the BIOS settings in order to install RHEL ? (machine vendor ? model ? make ?) I've never met such machine before :-) YK
Following is an example of the BIOS info in my output.log: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 22 bytes. BIOS Information Vendor: Dell Inc. Version: 1.0.5 Release Date: 09/01/2006 Address: 0xF0000 Runtime Size: 64 kB ROM Size: 1024 kB Characteristics: PCI is supported PNP is supported APM is supported BIOS is upgradeable BIOS shadowing is allowed Boot from CD is supported Selectable boot is supported EDD is supported Japanese floppy for Toshiba 1.2 MB is supported (int 13h) Print screen service is supported (int 5h) 8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h) Serial services are supported (int 14h) Printer services are supported (int 17h) ACPI is supported USB legacy is supported LS-120 boot is supported BIOS boot specification is supported Function key-initiated network boot is supported
Wondering if this would fix bug 175784. Any suggestions where to start?
Feature Request is specific to having vendors provide option settings in the BIOS (eg. Press F10, what settings are used 'auto assign' or '0x2F8,0x3F8').