First experiences with Rawhide installer

[James Laska]

On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 00:18 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> I downloaded boot.iso and install.img from
> http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/rawhide-lng/x86_64/os/images/
> and copied them to my rsync image.

Thank you for testing

> The first install attempt failed with an unhandled exception related to 
> an empty
> card reader mapped to /dev/sdd.    I put a Binkie into the reader and 
> tried again.

Were any bugs filed from this attempt?

> On the second attempt, the installer apparently could not access extended
> partitions.
> 
> For the third attempt, I specified a primary partition for Rawhide and the
> install was able to install files to the partition (sda3).
> 
> I was very careful to specify boot loader installation to the Rawhide 
> partition sda3.
> Nonetheless the installer managed to bollix the MBR.  Nothing booted.  I 
> installed

I observed this in private testing but haven't chased it down yet, glad
to hear someone confirm this.  Have you already filed a bug for this
issue?

> ArtistX in order to get a working MBR.   ArtistX was able to boot to 
> Rawhide.

> The Rawhide boot was very slow and eventually locked up the computer.

Possibly the previously discussed microcode_ctrl issue -
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=560031 ?

Thanks,
James


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