f11 ppc64 woes

Kyle McMartin kyle at mcmartin.ca
Sun Jun 7 15:06:19 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 12:57:06PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Josh Boyer wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 09:28:25AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 16:13 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>>>> I blame yaboot...
>>>
>>> Fixed in yaboot-1.3.14-13 (thanks to benh for pointing out the problem).
>>>
>>> We missed the boat to get that in F11 GA, right?
>>
>> Pretty sure.  Jesse is getting on a plane today, and we release Tuesday.
>>
>> 0-day update it seems.  Though that isn't going to help the installer any.
>> We might have to recommend yum updating or pre-upgrade for the machines this
>> impacted.
>
> Or 'netboot' with the zImage, which can be done from the CD.
>
> Precisely where in the release kernel does the 4MiB corruption happen?
>

drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c, which is unconditionally hit
(via iscsi_tcp) by anaconda.




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