[Bug 1066387] Re: D-I install menu, select "Boot from first hard disk" and it goes back to Language selection

[Emmet Hikory]

Setting the syslinux status to "Invalid" for now: currently syslinux is
being instructed to "localboot 0x80" from the boot menu, which relies on
the BIOS actually setting the first (non-syslinux-containing) disk to
this address.  For folk booting from remapped drives, this fails.  Note
that there may be a syslinux bug related to this issue, that syslinux
may not have sufficient syntax to allow a menu item to express "boot
from a hard drive other than the one that just booted" beyond reliance
on BIOS calls (e.g. -1 to send 18h): in such a case, if someone wants to
repoen this issue against syslinux to address that, rather than creating
a new bug, I encourage them to unset the invalid status.

** Changed in: syslinux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Invalid

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Title:
  D-I install menu, select "Boot from first hard disk" and it goes back
  to Language selection

Status in Ubuntu CD image build software:
  New
Status in “syslinux” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Server install, 201013. Machine has Quantal B2 installed.

  Boot from installer media (in my case, a USB stick);
  select Language (English, in my case)
  on the installer menu, select "Boot from first hard disk"

  You are thrown back into "Select Language", then the installer menu
  again.

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