Jesse Keating said the following on 07/27/2007 01:43 PM Pacific Time:
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:38:21 -0700
John Poelstra <poelstra(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Dead On Arrival
>
> 1) Boot i386 gnome on Dell 400SC
> 2) Get grub screen
> 3) Select boot from image
> 4) initrd loads
> 5) "Ready" message
> 5) machine reboots itself
Hurray. Another Dell that can duplicate this. It's like Fedora 7 all
over again. This hits boot.iso booting as well from the installable
trees, but only seems to hit Dell users.
It *is* like F7 all over again. I guess you can say it isn't a "regression"
;-)
After handing out a bunch of F7 Live CDs yesterday at OSCON I thought I'd run it at
home and compare to Ubuntu 7.04. Much to my shame I found that F7 doesn't boot. The
same F7 Live CD kernel panics on my IBM T41 Thinkpad too.
I'm wondering now how many of the people I encouraged to "give linux a try"
will simply throw the disk in the trash and move on. I realize there is a note in the CD
sleeve to check the website for known problems, but would good is a trial live CD that you
can't even get it to boot? ... a major manufacturer (Dell) at that. I don't think
most people are going to go to the website to look if the CD doesn't even boot. I
wouldn't.
Next time we create a bunch of CDs and DVDs for the handing out I seriously think we need
to reconsider not simply going with whatever was GA.
John