From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020605 Description of problem: on dell latitude 510 with bios a10 grub is not recognized as a valid os loader this prevent the booting of the os and the defaults of any reload would prevent redhat null from ever booting on this laptop Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.this is on a Dell latitude 510 with bios version a10 2.install null accepting default bootloader grub 3.after install reboot and remove install media Actual Results: bios comes up with message "no loader" and halts reboots give the same error message reinstalls the same linux rescue from the cdrom can find the partitioned hard drive Expected Results: grub load Additional info: the lilo loader works but is not the default maybe a bios black list will be required maybe lilo should be the default maybe a detector that would detect grub and a null file and say are you reinstalling because redhat did not boot and make lilo the default loader for that install
This is almost certainly a BIOS bug. Is there a newer BIOS available? It's impossible for us to keep a list of every broken bios out there for this -- they change entirely too rapidly to keep up with and without any real standard way to get the information :(
Closing due to inactivity