596293 – Selecting boot from M5 DVD fails

Bug 596293 - Selecting boot from M5 DVD fails

Summary: Selecting boot from M5 DVD fails

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 597167

Alias:	None

Product:	openSUSE 11.3
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	Bootloader (show other bugs)
Version:	Factory
Hardware:	x86-64 openSUSE 11.3

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Major with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Steffen Winterfeldt
QA Contact:	Jiri Srain

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Reported:	2010-04-13 18:55 UTC by Graham Davis
Modified:	2010-04-19 13:34 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Graham Davis 2010-04-13 18:55:30 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100317 SUSE/3.6.2-1.1 Firefox/3.6.2

Unable to boot PCs from 11.3 M5 64-bit DVD. I haven't yet tried 32-bit version.

This has happened on two different machines. Previous milestones were OK.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot machine with 11.3 M5 64-bit DVD in the drive.
2. Select "boot from hard disk" option from the menu
3.
Actual Results:  
Following message appears:

Booting from local disk . . .
Boot failed: press another key to retry . . .


Expected Results:  
GRUB menu should appear.

Comment 1 Graham Davis 2010-04-14 11:43:52 UTC

I've just checked the 32-bit M5 DVD and got the same problem.

Comment 2 Graham Davis 2010-04-14 20:07:43 UTC

Note: this bug is also reported as #596672.

Comment 3 Larry Finger 2010-04-14 20:32:15 UTC

Note: #596672 is for the i586 NET install CD. It seems as if this bug affects DVDs and NET install CDs.

Comment 4 Steffen Winterfeldt 2010-04-19 13:34:08 UTC

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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 597167 ***