FC5 Final Release

[Rahul Sundaram]

Stanton Finley wrote:

>On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 01:14 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 22:26 -0700, Stanton Finley wrote:
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>>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178143
>>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182147
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>>These appear to be machine specific, and need a fix from the machine
>>provider.  Not sure if this is something we can fix in Fedora space.
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>This then begs the question why do the FC2, FC3, and FC4 installation
>media boot and install on the same machine without incident? What's
>different about the FC5 installation image kernel and can it be fixed?
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Syslinux changes seem to affect some specific hardware everytime. Its 
hard to figure out this without the relevant hardware which is not there 
internally. Changing syslinux late in the release cycle might create 
problems like the infamous one in which FC4 wouldnt bootup on some Intel 
chipsets, without feeding in garbage at the bootup prompt, which again  
wasnt there in our labs 
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159026).  Not sure 
there are easy resolutions to such issues.

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Rahul