Any YDL PowerStation users?

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:17 PM, David Aquilina <dwa at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We're on the very cusp of announcing GA for Fedora 17 for Power, however
> we've discovered a snag at the very last minute that seems to only
> affect the YDL PowerStation.
>
> Do any of you still actively use the PowerStation, and if so are you
> able to assist with debugging?

Sure.  Though mine is already running F17 albeit with yaboot instead
of grub2.

> The problem we see is that the install completes without any problems,
> however after rebooting and selecting an entry in grub2 the screen
> almost-blanks momentarily, then returns to the grub2 menu. It's
> impossible to tell what the system is displaying as the text is garbled
> and corrupted (see
> http://people.redhat.com/dwa/bimini/IMG_20120612_154404.jpg for an
> example of what it displays between selecting a boot item and returning
> to the grub2 menu). I've also had no luck getting a serial console to
> work on the system either.
>
> Booting into rescue mode and examining the partitioning and grub
> configuration doesn't reveal anything obviously wrong.
>
> Please let me know if you're interested in helping out with this and I
> can point you at the GA RC. Or if you're unable to help but still care
> about the PowerStation as a platform, please let me know that as well -
> we don't have a good sense of the install base on it. We'd like to
> announce GA ASAP, so please speak up soon!

You might as well just point the list to the GA RC image.  There's
really no reason not to get as much testing as possible on it anyway.

josh