Description of problem: On headless server systems, UEFI grub throws a processor exception due to it's inability to locate a graphics output protocol. This is different behavior than isolinux, legacy grub, etc. This effectively prevents the installation on headless systems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 11 Preview How reproducible: 100% consistent when no graphics output protocol is present Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enable serial console redirection 2. Remove or disable any video adapter in the system 3. Attempt UEFI boot from boot.iso on CD Actual results: System hangs, throws processor exception 0C. Expected results: Grub should detect that graphics output is not available, and use text mode EFI console output. Additional info: This can be made to work by modifying the bootx64.conf file to remove the splash screen. Grub will use text mode output in this case.
is this really the correct component?
(In reply to comment #1) > is this really the correct component? My mistake. Thanks Peter for correcting it.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.