On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Bill Davidsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Antonio Olivares wrote: > >> >> >> --- On Mon, 2/16/09, Clemens Eisserer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> From: Clemens Eisserer <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Does Fedora11-alpha contain Linux-2.6.29rc? >>> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." < >>> [email protected]> >>> 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. ;-) > > -- > Bill Davidsen <[email protected]> > "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from > the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > I do think there is something wrong with your hardware. -- 南无楞严会上佛菩萨！南无楞严会上佛菩萨！南无楞严会上佛菩萨！
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