i386-class support changed in F-13?

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Tue Apr 6 18:38:32 UTC 2010


On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Dan Horák <dan at danny.cz> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was trying to install i686 variant of F-13 to an Alix board (2D13 with
> Geode LX) and got into troubles. The kernel boots fine, but when it
> should start initramfs the kernel panics. Everything works well when
> using complete F-12 environment and when using F-12 kernel+initramfs
> with F-13 rootfs the initramfs stuff runs well, but when I try to
> manually chroot into the F-13 from the dracut shell I get an "Invalid
> instruction" exception. I though last change in x86 CPU support was in
> F-12 (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F12X86Support) and it
> explicitly talks about Geode LX as still supported. So the question is
> whether F-13 should still work on Geode LX?

That is correct, it should still work and if it has changed it hasn't
been a published change and we rule out the 1.2 million odd OLPC XO-1s
that currently run a number of different versions of Fedora. Could
someone please verify the status of this?

Peter


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