Skip Preview Release?

[John Summerfield]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> Greg wrote:
>>> is it or would it be worth skipping the Preview release an go 
>>> straight to the Release candidate?
>>>
>> Until I see a new kernel I can boot, I'm not going to admit there's a 
>> suitable release candidate to be offered.
> 
> Had you tried reinstalling from one of the rawhide snapshots yet?  There 

It will not happen.

I might boot a .iso, but so far haven't seen a reason to look for one to 
boot.


> is every possibility your system has quirks that just shouldn't be there 
> and its preventing you getting the newer kernels working.  We always say 
> systems that went through the early weeks of rawhide probably need 
> reinstalled by the end..

It's nothing to do with initial RAM disks, and it does no only happen 
with Fedora/Rawhide kernels, I can reproduce it building my own kernel 
from kernel.org source.

It also is reproducible with Factory, the OpenSUSE equivalent to Rawhide.

The bug, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436099, is assigned 
to Alan Cox. I check it regularly, additional to watching my "bugs" 
email folder and keeping an eye on new rawhide kernels.


(checks private mirror)
Oh, there's a boot.iso, built April 9.

Burns to CD. Does not find the drives on the DC7700 I bought yesterday.

I can boot the CentOS 5.1 disk on the older one, that's what I plan to 
use on this system.

I mirror Rawhide nightly UTC+8:00; I don't know when the mirror I mirror 
from mirrors its mirror, but there's necessarily some lag. OTOH I don't 
get charged against my quota, and that's important.

Anaconda is 11.4.0.67, there are no kernel messages visible that 
identify it.



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