On Wed, 20 May 2020 00:43:12 +1000
Trung Le <trung.le(a)ruby-journal.com> wrote:
To Fedora team
I was thinking of submitting a bug report about Fedora 32 Workstation
Live USB failed to boot on Raptor Blackbird system.
Here are the steps I take:
* Download ppc64le Workstation ISO
* dd to write the ISO to USB pendrive
* Reboot with the USB pendrive
* Choose the Start Fedora-Workstation Live 32 (64bit kernel) option
at Petitboot promp
* Got Error loading kernel image
Have I missed anything required to get it boot correctly?
no, there are multiple issues, but the image works fine in a VM. The
problem is that petitboot doesn't fully understand the grub config
(/boot/grub/grub.cfg) used in the Live image, same config does work when
processed by grub in a VM. The solution is to keep only 64-bit
versions/paths as we don't produce 32-bit content for a long time, for
details see
https://github.com/weldr/lorax/pull/1017. It means it will
be fixed in F-33.
The workaround is to edit the kernel/initrd paths before booting to
be /ppc/ppc64/{vmlinuz,initrd.img} instead of /ppc/ppc. Or maybe there
is a newer/fixed version of petitboot, so also building a new firmware
image could help.
Dan