F9 PreView Anaconda,XEN, Xorg Problems

John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com
Thu Apr 24 02:05:18 UTC 2008


Jon Stanley wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:32 AM, David M Burgess
> <davidburgess at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> I've just finished installing the Preview Release on three different
>>  hardware platforms.
>>
>>  Big problems with them all.
>>
>>  I'm installing on dual core 64 bit hardware"
>>
>>  Lenovo T61p     - dual core Intel
>>  Asus A7N-M2     - AMD M2
>>  Sun Ultra20 M2  - AMD Opteron
>>
>>  All the boxes have 2Gig of RAM and SATA drives, each box also has a
>>  NVidia video card - different one in all three.
>>
>>  When Anaconda gets to part where you configure the network cards eth0
>>  has no check mark but eth1 does and Anaconda is set to configure that by
>>  default.  A minor problem but still wrong.
> 
> I'll check this out.
> 
>>  Far more seriously XEN refuses to boot on any of the three platforms I
>>  even installed the 32 bit PR on the Asus box and had a similar reaction.
> 
> Xen Dom0 support is not included, nor slated to be included, in F9.
> Folks that need Xen Dom0 are advised to stay with F8.  For more
> information, see
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2008-March/msg00013.html
> 

I think this should be a release note.  Any idea if it is or where to look?

John




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