Description of problem:I burned the fedora 16 dviso to a disk. Tried to boot from this disk and I get the message "boot failure" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible:always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Download dvd iso 2.burn to disk 3.try to boot from disk Actual results:boot failure Expected results:boot into install screen Additional info: This disk will not boot from my computer. I verified the download with the CHECKSUM file. Burned it to disk with k3b, which verified the written data. I can still boot the fedora 14 install disk fine, so it's not the dvd reader. The fedora 16 disk will boot fine in my son's computer. I suspect the problem is my BIOS will boot the previous versions of fedora install media, but not F16. It's on an MSI GNB MAX ms-6565 board. Award BIOS version 2.2 release date 01-10-03. This board is not new, but it's not ancient either, and still functions very well otherwise. It seems like something fedora should still support. My son's (where the disk works) is an Asus P5W DH Deluxe ACPI AMI BIOS Rev. 1305 released in 2006. There are no updates for my BIOS. I hope you can fix this in a future version. I really like fedora. But I shouldn't have to upgrade my computer just to use it. I saw some similar posts in other forums related to this issue, for other boards/BIOS combos. So it's not specific to only mine. But I thought if I gave you detailed info on by BIOS, it might help you track it down.
Exactly what kind of boot failure did you get? Could you attach a photo? You can help yourself and Fedora by testing the pre-17 images: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2012-April/000421.html
Created attachment 578049 [details] Boot screen with fedora 16 disk
Here is the Boot screen where the boot process stops. BTW, I found a from workaround from reading the forums, and was finally able to install fedora 16. I did it by getting the fedora netinst.iso file. It boots fine. Then I switched disks at the screen which asks which kind of keyboard I have. Then it installed fine. There must be some difference in coding between the way these two disks boot. Thanks
IIRC these images are build with different tools.
Hi, I have downloaded and burned fedora-16-i386-dvd.iso. but when I want boot from dvd-rom nothing happens and system boot's from hdd (I get Windows 7 installed). I have checked boot parameters in bios and first boot is dvd-rom. I have researched a bit and it seems that the bios "Aware Software Bios" are those that do not recognize the Fedora 16 DVD. On two PC tested: One had Award Software Bios International FJ version 2.4 and the other had Award Software Bios V6.00PG 8IG1000 FH, the system behaved as I said at the beginning On the other hand, I tried it on a PC with Intel BIOS (Intel Corp. TCIBX10H.86A.0035.2010.0429.1516 V2.6) and on a nootbook Acer 5542 with Phoenix Scurecore V1.09 Bios, and both booted from DVD and started the installer. Seems to be a bug in fedora 16 installer, so I hope it fixed as soon as possible.
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