Announcing Fedora Core 6 Test 1 (5.90)

[Sam Varshavchik]

Matthew Saltzman writes:

> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Kam Leo wrote:
> 
>> On 6/21/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>>> Razvan Corneliu C.R. "d3vi1" VILT wrote:
>>> >
>>> > On 21.06.2006, at 19:36, Alan Cox wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:55:28AM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> >>> Perhaps we can get a show of hands of all the people who actually care
>>> >>> about Fedora on i586 systems...
>>> >>
>>> >> Me. I have no 686 capable legacy ia32 hardware running
>>> >
>>> > Me also. We have a few small K6-2 500MHz Systems that we test some apps 
>>> on.
>>> 
>>> My home file and print server is an AMD K6-2 200MHz system.
>>> 
>>> Paul.
>>> 
>>
>> I'm still using P2 133MHz and K6-2 450MHz systems.
> 
> I have a P1-166 print server, but it hasn't been able to boot any kernel 
> since 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 without freezing up during or shortly after boot.

You got as far as 2.6.15.  Anything newer than 2.6.13 reliably panics 
within seconds after booting on my dual Opteron.

> (2) Anyone else having problems with kernel 2.6.16 RPMs and i586?  Any 
> ideas what to look for?

Things are not looking good.  Unless you're running generic, mainstream, 
consumer hardware, if the kernel croaks on you you'll have to swim on your 
own. The kernel has become too complicated for most average shmucks to 
troubleshoot, if something breaks.

Just for yucks I'll try booting up the most recent 2.6.16 errata, over the 
weekend.  Maybe I'll get lucky, and it will croak without making me rebuild 
my degraded RAID arrays, afterwards.

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