You can believe in the fancy fashion or want to be at the edge of releases, believing that gonna fix your old issues. Nothing as wrong as that!.
Let's gonna talk about that continuous problem with grub and the Optiplex dell's series. AFAIK the problem has been there since 2003 or even before. I've been searching about fixes for these problem, because , as Dijkstra wrote, it's not a "bug" , it's just an error.....which hasn't been fixed in all these years.
Whats about a work around for this problem?
You can try to update the bios of these kind of problems, but believe me , nothing to do int that way. I updated to version 1.1.12 my optiplex 320 and nothing changed with grub , still can't boot.
The traditional answer should be "use the pci=nomsi" boot parameter, usually that works for the fc6 and others. Thats a way, it's the answer you can find in forums and faq's. Actually with Leonidas you don't need that parameter at all. It keep sucking with the video drivers. It's supposed that releases are intended to fix that kind of errors, or improve or remove ..... etc.
Well, the fedora staff has no idea about that, and it's not in his plans to add that kind of support. At least the last post i read, say something like " problem wont fix" as the support for that core release finishes. Thats the idea fedora team propagate in his forums and answers. Which kind of users they want to create and get grown if they work with that attitude?!?
You can try LiLo as boot loader in order to workaround this problem, or you can use another kind of loader , there's a lot of then which you can try. I tried GAG , but couldn't fix it, also tried a liveCD which uses grub4dos as boot loader an was able to get the partition up an d running. It uses this intruction
find --set-root /sbin/init
configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst
and that's all , the trick its done...
