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| Summary: | Install DISK 1 to 2 , message problem. OLD BIOS issue , not applicable to new PC's | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 | Reporter: | jerry hodson <jerry> |
| Component: | Installation | Assignee: | Olaf Dabrunz <odabrunz> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf> |
| Severity: | Major | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | jerry |
| Version: | RC 1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | SuSE Pro 9.1 | ||
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| Found By: | Beta-Customer | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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Description
jerry hodson
2005-09-21 01:40:30 UTC
This is sure a duplicate of another enhancement but I cannot find it. Warning about removing CD might be good point. On the other hand, even if you leave the CD inside, it should boot your system by default... (In reply to comment #1) > This is sure a duplicate of another enhancement but I cannot find it. Warning > about removing CD might be good point. On the other hand, even if you leave the > CD inside, it should boot your system by default... (yes, on new machines) Not on old (millions of legacy systems build in 1997 ( the year CDR started booting for the first time) El-Torito (ect) spec was incorrectly built in to millions of PCS (award Bios). EG: ASus PentiumIII MOBOS and many others. If the CD is set as first boot item , all these machines boot the CD1 over and over , when at CD1 to CD2 transition. ( even old m$ OS installs , said , Please remove all bootable media and press any key) Good machines (all modern do) do what is is called BOOT Through per spec. allowing the new mini kernal on HDx to boot , instead of the CD1 disk. It is not a serious problem ,just dumb legacy issues. If someone wants to put Linux on ,as a NO GUI (CL) and run a small server on an old slow pentium 500 , they will mostly stumble on to this BIOS bug. It really is a BIOS bug. sad to say. This release is fantastic , I have 20 friends trying it now. it finally supports USB on a HUB, WOW ! I hope I have helped you and not confused you beyond reason. Please forgive me for asking to hide BIOS bugs, [ a silly business, for sure ] good day , jerry h. Andreas, do you want it to be solved somehow for 10.1? The only idea I have is to add possibility to force user to push a key before reboot (eg. via kernel parameter during installation). I suggest to show a message like the following - please talk with Sigi about this as well: The system gets rebooted now and then installation continues. Either remove the CDs (which is advisable if you cannot boot from CD1) or use "boot from harddisk" in the bootloader menu. Sigi, what do you need about this usability issue? Sigi, please, comment on the usability and then reassign back to me... If I remember correct we have a message box with a kind of count down before the automatic reboot. Perhaps we can place a information message there. But this would mean that a problem of some "old" machines would affect the "modern" auto-reboot. I prefer a better solution. Check the age of the BIOS in the machine and if <1988 then (and only then) stop the installation flow and pop up the message in the center of the screen. +-------------------------------------------+ | (Icon) The system will reboot now. | | | | Please remove all media from | | the drives and click OK | | after this. | | | | [OK] | +-------------------------------------------+ Reasigning to new maintainer Let's say you automatically reboot after a countdown on "newer" machines, and stop until click/keypress on "older" machines. You'll make a very few users happy, who forget to replace their CD or are unable to boot their server from network , and you'll make at least as much people unhappy, those for whom it worked before, and who now have to manually intervene. In the fewer cases this might be a good idea, but not generally. Especially since this really is a BIOS problem, I suggest WONTFIX. |