Bug 597167 - Cannot boot from hard disk when installation DVD is inserted
Summary: Cannot boot from hard disk when installation DVD is inserted
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
: 596293 596672 597708 (view as bug list)
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 11.3
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Milestone 7
Hardware: PC openSUSE 11.3
: P5 - None : Major (vote)
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Assignee: Steffen Winterfeldt
QA Contact: Jiri Srain
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Reported: 2010-04-15 23:18 UTC by Forgotten User xs3PtXj4XH
Modified: 2010-05-31 11:44 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Forgotten User xs3PtXj4XH 2010-04-15 23:18:30 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 SUSE/3.6.3-1.5 Firefox/3.6.3

On reboot, if the system first boots from DVD and then times out and attempts to boot from hard disk, the user receives the message "Boot failed: press a key to retry".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Set boot order in BIOS to: FDD, CDROM, HDD
2.  Start first stage of install, and enable boot from MBR and disable boot from /
3.  Wait for reboot and then select option "Boot From Hard Disk" when shown from the DVD boot menu.
Actual Results:  
User receives the message "Boot failed: press a key to retry".  The system then resets a few moments after a key is pressed.

Expected Results:  
The system should boot from HDD and begin the second stage of the installation.

Removing the DVD entirely allows the system to boot from the HDD as per normal.  It can then be re-inserted to allow the install process to continue.  I have labelled this as "major" because to a normal user it appears that the system is un-installable.
Comment 1 Steffen Winterfeldt 2010-04-16 09:28:57 UTC 
*** Bug 592779 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Steffen Winterfeldt 2010-04-16 12:22:16 UTC 
fix submitted
Comment 3 Forgotten User xs3PtXj4XH 2010-04-16 14:02:51 UTC 
Thanks for your prompt fix Steffan.
Comment 4 Steffen Winterfeldt 2010-04-19 13:34:08 UTC 
*** Bug 596293 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Steffen Winterfeldt 2010-04-19 13:34:59 UTC 
*** Bug 596672 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Steffen Winterfeldt 2010-04-20 09:55:05 UTC 
*** Bug 597708 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Forgotten User xs3PtXj4XH 2010-05-02 04:33:12 UTC 
Confirmed working in Milestone 6.
Comment 8 Forgotten User 42maXmOW7B 2010-05-24 18:05:34 UTC 
The problem I reported in Bug 592779 (slightly different from the description above, as I don't get a "Boot failed" message) still manifests itself on my test system with the Milestone 6 and 7 32 bit installation DVDs.

Milestone 6 differs in that the system rebooted after a few seconds of the black screen, while Milestone 7, like Milestone 4, just hangs indefinitely. (I didn't test Milestone 5.)

To make sure it's not a problem of my test system I also tried an openSUSE 11.1 Retail DVD and its "boot from hard disk" function worked fine.
Comment 9 Steffen Winterfeldt 2010-05-31 11:44:57 UTC 
I've reopened bug 592779. Closing this one again.