Description of problem: Booting the netinst.iso from physical platter and choosing "Troubleshooting > Boot from local drive" accomplishes little. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ISOLINUX 4.05 2011-12-09 Fedora-19-Final-TC6-i386-netinst.iso How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot Fedora-19-Final-TC6-i386-netinst.iso from physical CD-R. (x86_64 works the same) 2. Choose Troubleshooting > Boot from local drive 3. Actual results: Control is intercepted by BIOS with BIOS-dependent VGA text message such as "PRESS A KEY TO REBOOT" or: Booting from local disk... <<blank line>> Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key Nothing happens until a key is pressed. Once any key is pressed, then I see an ordinary reboot (as if pressing the hardware ResetSwitch), so if "boot from optical drive" appears in the BIOS boot order before "boot from harddrive", then I just [re-]boot from optical drive containing netinst.iso, thus achieving only a time delay with no change in state. Expected results: Boot as if the platter containing netinst.iso was not loaded into its drive. In the traditional classic case, this means loading the MasterBootRecord from the boot ("first") harddrive, and transferring control to it (which probably is grub or grub2, etc.) It seems to me that the purpose of the option is so that you don't have to unload the netinst.iso platter in order to avoid booting from it. Ctrl-Alt-DEL keyboard reset activation already accomplishes what "Boot from local drive" does currently. It isn't obvious to me that the equivalence is intended. If it is, then please relabel the option as "Warm boot" or "Cold boot" or "Reboot" etc., omitting the text "from local drive" because only the BIOS knows for sure. Additional info: Bug #431636 (first in Fedora 9, 2008-02-05; last in Fedora 12, 2010-12-05) is the same but does not allow me to re-open.
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