F9alpha AMD-64 HP DC7700 SFF switch_root: no filesystems

Mon Feb 25 02:48:54 UTC 2008

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:40:02AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:

> 1. The 32-bit F8 rescue CD does not work on 64-bit systems.

You will end with a 32-bit kernel and 64-bit userspace
(if you will try to execute things from your system).
This is not a winning combination.  The other way around
it might work.  Never tried.

> 5. Once booting to runlevel 5, I cannot switch to other consoles using 
> control-alt-Fn. This _might_ be partly because of something that I've 
> done, but if it's not I'm really not happy.

Ah, that one.  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434669
A keyboard at this moment is not very healthy.

   Michal