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.
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.
With the 64 bit OS XEN begins to boot the screen displays something like "Xen is relinquishing the VGA console" and then it simply reboots. The 32bit version hung completely at that point.
When using system-config-display to try and get dual head working I can check the box for "dual-head" but the drop down selection box for the "second video card" is empty. System-config-display refuses to let me continue until I uncheck dual-head.
When I tried to update the base PR using System->Administration->Add/Remove Software it took more than 40 minutes to return and tell me that there were no updates nor any additional software to install. So I installed yumex and it worked fine.
I've tried the base F9 PreView release and I've also applied all the updates available as of 1400 UTC Sunday April 20. I'd list the exact version numbers of X, xen, etc except I've reverted to a working Beta box.
The Anaconda and PackageKit problems are merely irritating, the XEN and X are show stoppers for us.
My SMOLT report/page for my ASUS box is
http://www.smolts.org/show?uuid=pub_d0142107-93e5-4cd6-be94-04837980709b
if that helps any.
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:32 AM, David M Burgess davidburgess@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
When I tried to update the base PR using System->Administration->Add/Remove Software it took more than 40 minutes to return and tell me that there were no updates nor any additional software to install. So I installed yumex and it worked fine.
Not sure, maybe some PackageKit guys can answer this one
The Anaconda and PackageKit problems are merely irritating, the XEN and X are show stoppers for us.
You didn't mention any X problems.
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 15:38 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:32 AM, David M Burgess davidburgess@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
When I tried to update the base PR using System->Administration->Add/Remove Software it took more than 40 minutes to return and tell me that there were no updates nor any additional software to install. So I installed yumex and it worked fine.
Not sure, maybe some PackageKit guys can answer this one
The Anaconda and PackageKit problems are merely irritating, the XEN and X are show stoppers for us.
You didn't mention any X problems.
Perhaps it was a poor choice of words when I said "X". In my original posting I said
When using system-config-display to try and get dual head working I can check the box for "dual-head" but the drop down selection box for the "second video card" is empty. System-config-display refuses to let me continue until I uncheck dual-head.
So it may be X it may be system-config-display. Sorry for the confusion.
So from what you say the XEN kernel won't work, so why is it installable it'd be a lot less confusing if it just plain "wasn't there". I saw a few RHEL 5.1 and 5.2 bugzilla reports on my exact problem (I saw then after I posted) the Xen kernels crash when attempting to start X. BZ 435130 437412 433528. I realize RHEL 5.x is not Fedora 9 but it seems to be the same problem.
Thanks for the info.
Jon Stanley wrote:
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:32 AM, David M Burgess davidburgess@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
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:05 PM, John Poelstra poelstra@redhat.com wrote:
I think this should be a release note. Any idea if it is or where to look?
It's already there:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Virtualization
Thanks Karsten for pointing me those earlier :)
On Apr 20, 2008, at 4:32 AM, David M Burgess 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.
You didn't provide any information on the install method you used. The network interface post configuration screen copies the values used during network installation. If you have two NICs, configure eth1 for network install, and then get to the post config screen, you will see that eth1 is checked and has the settings you flagged during the network installation. eth0 will be unchecked.
But, if you can provide some details on the install method you used, it would be easier to diagnose.
I booted from the DVD and followed the prompts. I "installed" not "upgraded" because that's asking for trouble.
Nothing mysterious or the least be out of the ordinary about that.
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 10:18 -1000, David Cantrell wrote:
On Apr 20, 2008, at 4:32 AM, David M Burgess 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.
You didn't provide any information on the install method you used. The network interface post configuration screen copies the values used during network installation. If you have two NICs, configure eth1 for network install, and then get to the post config screen, you will see that eth1 is checked and has the settings you flagged during the network installation. eth0 will be unchecked.
But, if you can provide some details on the install method you used, it would be easier to diagnose.
-- David Cantrell dcantrell@redhat.com Red Hat / Honolulu, HI
I booted from the DVD and followed the prompts. I "installed" not "upgraded" because that's asking for trouble.
Nothing mysterious or the least be out of the ordinary about that.
No, but lots of people do mysterious and out-of-the-ordinary installs, so it helps to make sure that's not what we're dealing with.
- Chris