FC2 Development observations/comments/questions

[Gene C.]

A couple of days ago I got a snapshot of FC2 i386 development and installed 
it.  Today I finally got a good snapshot of FC2 x86_64 development.  The 
system is an ASUS SK8V motherboard with an Opteron 140.  The mobo has regular 
(legacy) ide support plus Promise raid and VIA SATA raid controllers.  It 
also has a sk98lin supported 10/100/1000 ethernet NIC.

1.  I installed a SATA drive under FC1 X86_64 (which I also have installed).  
Naturally, under FC1 this came up as /dev/sda with 238216,16,63 sizing (scsi 
so no LBA).  This seems to work fine.  However, when I was installing FC2, 
the system did not like the partition and said it was in error (showed gaps) 
but still with the 238216,16,63 characteristics.  I suspect I could make this 
have LBA-like parameters of 14946,255,63 under FC2.  

I was surprised by the problems between the two versions.  Comments?

2. When I installed FC2 x86_64 today I noticed some extra options on package 
selection (they may have also been there for the i386 install but I did not 
notice).  The options were for two new package groupings involving 
compatability libraries.  I assume these had something to do with ix86 
packages on the x86_64 system but that was not at all clear.  Should I report 
this as a bug?

3. When I installed FC2 x86_64 the installer did not recognize my monitor (the 
i386 install did) so it ask what it was ... I specified generic LCD capable 
of 1600x1200 (it is a Dell 2000FP).  To my surprise (I was pleased) X came up 
with 1600x1200 so that I did not need to resize it after the first boot.

4. During bootup, the system has problems if kudzu is run -- 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119011
Today I found out that this is also true on the x86_64.

5. One thing that really puzzles me.  For the ix86 install, there is a simple 
graphic that comes up in the top part of the initial screen when you first 
boot boot.iso (the one where you can select text, gui, expert, askmethod, 
etc, etc).  This does NOT appear on the x86_64 install -- just the text 
messages and prompt.  For that matter, it did not appear on the FC1 x86_64 
install either.  I do not understand?
-- 
Gene