Call for testing: 32-bit AMD CPU owners

[Petr Schindler]

On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 17:37 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 18:11 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 12:08 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > Hi, folks!
> > > 
> > > 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).
> > 
> > 
> > One additional request: it's unclear right now (and we don't have
> > available hardware to test) if there is also a failure happening on
> > 64-
> > bit AMD systems that are running on i686 Fedora.
> > 
> > If someone out there has access to hardware that hits BZ #1263762,
> > would you please try installing Fedora 22 i686, updating to all the
> > latest stable packages, plus dnf-plugin-system-upgrade from updates
> > -
> > testing and then do an upgrade using the supported mechanism[1] and
> > verify whether A) the upgrade runs or aborts, leaving F22 present
> > and
> > B) if it completes the upgrade, is the system bootable and
> > runnable.
> > 
> > This will help us figure out how serious to rate this issue. (For
> > new
> > installs, we can probably advocate simply using the 64-bit media;
> > for
> > existing installs, irrecoverably breaking on upgrade could be a
> > show-
> > stopper).
> 
> Upgraded systems will at least still have an old kernel around to try
> and boot with, of course.

I tried to install F22 and upgrade it. It doesn't boot with 4.2.0-300
kernel, but it can boot with F22's kernel. So upgraded system could be
booted and used.

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