CD bootloader change - test help needed
Will Woods
wwoods at redhat.com
Fri May 4 20:11:52 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 21:05 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 03:14:13PM -0400, Will Woods wrote:
> > So, Fedora 7's CD/DVD boot menu needs a small tweak to work in qemu. We
> > want to make sure this change is safe and stable, so we need your help.
> >
> > Please download the (8MB) test image from:
> > http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/syslinux-test-16bpp-boot.iso
> >
> > burn it to CD and boot it in as many (i386/x86_64) machines as you can.
> > We want to know if the graphical menu looks right, and if the timer
> > counts down from 60.
>
> It crashes with Xen fully-virt guest on Intel CPUs instantly. Black
> screen, guest uses 100% CPU. Would I be right in thinking this new
> fancy boot screen uses real-mode ... ? If so it is doomed on Xen
> and KVM when using Intel CPUs. BTW, the previous test4 ISO exhibits
> same crash behaviour
So it's not a regression? That's really what we're testing for.
Basically this new CD bootloader should work on everything it did in
Test4, and also work right in full-virt KVM guests.
I'm not sure if we've got a fix for full-virt Xen guests yet. Hopefully
before F7 final.
-w
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