After a brief discussion with Jeremy, it appears that Fedora 11 in rawhide has had many boot issues on many platforms, and they're tackling them one by one. He promises to have a look at OLPC specifically on Friday.
--g -- Got an XO that you're not using? Loan it to a needy developer! [[ http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Exchange_Registry ]] On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Jerry Vonau wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 20:47 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: >> Hi Chris, >> >>> > I wanted to put it to the lists and get some feedback, with the >>> > plans on basing the 9.1.0 release on Fedora 11 I think we need to >>> > have a testing stream based on rawhide so that we can start testing >>> > core OS related bits and dealing with them sooner rather than >>> > later. >>> >>> Totally agreed. The reason I haven't pushed to set up nightly builds is >>> that right now Rawhide *doesn't boot* on the XO. I think energy should >>> probably be aimed at fixing that before we start setting up nightlies. >>> >>> I pinged Jeremy earlier in the week, he didn't have any strong ideas >>> about what's wrong. I should retry with latest Rawhide in case >>> something's been fixed recently.. >> >> Oh! I wasn't aware of that as I don't currently have an XO to test >> (although that should be sorted soon) not that I know enough about the >> boot/kernel of the XO to be of much help fixing it. I wonder if any of >> the 50 odd people on fedora-devel that got an XO in the lead up to the >> F-10 release could help with that? Greg, do you know of someone that >> isn't as busy as Jeremy that could help shed some light on XO boot >> issues? >> >> Peter > > I've been playing with booting fedora on the XO, mostly with anaconda > (F9/F10) to be able to run an install on the XO itself for the XS. I'll > try to boot the F11 kernel/installer when one is available, it looks > like there are issues building anaconda atm, there is no isolinux > directory on the mirrors... > > Perhaps someone could shed some light on the issues with rawhide that > were uncovered thus far. Is there a tracker somewhere? > > > Jerry > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
