Call for testing: 32-bit AMD CPU owners

[Felix Miata]

Adam Williamson composed on 2015-09-16 12:08 (UTC-0700):

> 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!

Is it necessary to use the image, or would my normal routine of loading the
installation initrd, kernel and squashfs.img via Grub be sufficient for this
need?

[why]I don't try to keep OM drives working, rarely having any use for them.
One is installed where the OM drive tray cannot be physically opened enough
to get a disc in or out. These old machines typically have slow USB, if boot
from USB is even a support option. USB boot assumes I even have a USB stick
to burn an image to. I have few. Their tiny size makes them a serious PITA to
library, no room to write on them what's on the media.[/why]
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