On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 16:30 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Adam Williamson composed on 2015-09-16 12:08 (UTC-0700): > > > We've found an issue in Fedora 23 Beta testing which seems to > > affect > > AMD CPUs when booting the 32-bit images: > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1263762 > > > unfortunately, so far all those who've tested have only had 64-bit > > CPUs. So we know there's a problem booting the 32-bit images on > > some > > 64-bit AMD CPUs, but we don't know yet if there's a problem booting > > the 32-bit images on 32-bit AMD CPUs, which is obviously the main > > reason we still keep the 32-bit images around (people with 64-bit > > CPUs > > can just use the 64-bit images). > > > If anyone reading this has an old 32-bit AMD system - the last > > range > > of 32-bit AMD CPUs was the Athlon XPs from early 2003, anything > > 'Athlon 64' or later is 64-bit - and it's not too much trouble, > > could > > you please grab a 23 Beta RC1 32-bit image and try booting it? > > Here's > > how you can do it, assuming you want to write to a USB stick > > '/dev/sdc' (adjust for your USB stick's device node): > > > wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/23_Alpha_RC1/Server > > /x86 > > _64/iso/Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-23_Alpha.iso > > su > > dd if=Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-23_Alpha.iso of=/dev/sdc > > > then plug the USB stick into the test system and try booting it. If > > you reach the installer, the test passed, no need to do anything > > else. > > If you hit a kernel panic (perhaps after a wait of a couple of > > minutes) which looks something like > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1074083 , the test > > failed, please let us know that it failed, and tell us exactly what > > CPU model you have. Thanks! > > Is it necessary to use the image, or would my normal routine of > loading the > installation initrd, kernel and squashfs.img via Grub be sufficient > for this > need? Can't say for sure, but it can't hurt to test it! Give it a shot. > [why]I don't try to keep OM drives working, rarely having any use > for them. > One is installed where the OM drive tray cannot be physically opened > enough > to get a disc in or out. These old machines typically have slow USB, > if boot > from USB is even a support option. USB boot assumes I even have a > USB stick > to burn an image to. I have few. Their tiny size makes them a > serious PITA to > library, no room to write on them what's on the media.[/why] Fair enough. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
