Does Fedora11-alpha contain Linux-2.6.29rc?

[Bill Davidsen]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 2/16/09, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Does Fedora11-alpha contain Linux-2.6.29rc?
>> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>> Date: Monday, February 16, 2009, 9:25 AM
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does Fedora11-Alpha use RC versions of 2.6.29, or still
>> stick to
>> 2.6.28 until 2.6.29 is released?
> Yes, pretty much.  We are running 2.6.29rcX kernels :)
>> The reason I ask is that the Intel driver is horribly
>> broken with
>> 2.6.28's GEM stuff, and I hope things got better until
>> now.
> We hope many things get better as well :)  
> Enjoying the ride with rawhide!

Not so much, I did an alpha install and it worked really well. A few days later 
I did an update (with "yum upgrade") and it hung during the upgrade never to 
boot again in any way. No, I mean any way, no POST, no way into BIOS, dead.

I pulled the disk and cleared the MBR and partition table, still wouldn't even 
POST, cleared the NV memory, reflashed the BIOS, dropped back to FC10.

No complaint, I know it's alpha, but that was the most hosed system I have ever 
seen. At least that I was able to recover w/o replacing hardware. Shuttle with 
Celeron and Sis chipset, and *NO* I don't want to continue testing. ;-)

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