Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

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On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 22:09 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 8:36 PM Harold Dost <harolddost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Is having this as a test criteria *that* burdensome? Similar to another blocker that was being proposed, maybe it's not something that _must_ be tested, but if it's known to be broken that it should block a final. Maybe I'm missing something, but unless the image is over the capacity of a DVD, what would prevent the success of an installation?
> 
> We did have a bug a couple years ago or so, where the ISO written to
> USB booted fine, but when burned to optical media wouldn't boot
> anything including VM. It was a bootloader bug, if I recall correctly
> - pretty sure it hit BIOS firmware only, not UEFI.

IIRC it would even boot when attached as a 'virtual' disc to a VM - it
was only when actually written to physical spinning discs that it
failed to work. That was a fun bug.

For the record:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141496
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1148087
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