On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 18:11 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 12:08 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Hi, folks! > > > > 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). > > > One additional request: it's unclear right now (and we don't have > available hardware to test) if there is also a failure happening on > 64- > bit AMD systems that are running on i686 Fedora. > > If someone out there has access to hardware that hits BZ #1263762, > would you please try installing Fedora 22 i686, updating to all the > latest stable packages, plus dnf-plugin-system-upgrade from updates- > testing and then do an upgrade using the supported mechanism[1] and > verify whether A) the upgrade runs or aborts, leaving F22 present and > B) if it completes the upgrade, is the system bootable and runnable. > > This will help us figure out how serious to rate this issue. (For new > installs, we can probably advocate simply using the 64-bit media; for > existing installs, irrecoverably breaking on upgrade could be a show- > stopper). Upgraded systems will at least still have an old kernel around to try and boot with, of course. -- 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
