Call for testing: 32-bit AMD CPU owners
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).
If anyone reading this has an old 32-bit AMD system - the last range
of 32-bit AMD CPUs was the Athlon XPs from early 2003, anything
'Athlon 64' or later is 64-bit - and it's not too much trouble, could
you please grab a 23 Beta RC1 32-bit image and try booting it? Here's
how you can do it, assuming you want to write to a USB stick
'/dev/sdc' (adjust for your USB stick's device node):
wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/23_Alpha_RC1/Server/x86
_64/iso/Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-23_Alpha.iso
su
dd if=Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-23_Alpha.iso of=/dev/sdc
then plug the USB stick into the test system and try booting it. If
you reach the installer, the test passed, no need to do anything else.
If you hit a kernel panic (perhaps after a wait of a couple of
minutes) which looks something like
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1074083 , the test
failed, please let us know that it failed, and tell us exactly what
CPU model you have. Thanks!
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